Teaching Revising and Editing: An Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies and Indexes in Mass Media and Communications)

220 Pages·2003·12.36 MB·English

by  Bruce W. Speck

TEACHING REVISING
AND EDITING
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TEACHING REVISING
AND EDITING
An Annotated Bibliography
Bruce W. Speck, Dean A. Hinnen,
and Kathleen Hinnen
Bibliographies and Indexes in Mass Media and
Communications, Number 12
PIRAEGER We^Conn^
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Speck, Bruce W.
Teaching revising and editing : an annotated bibliography / Bruce W. Speck, Dean A.
Hinnen, and Kathleen Hinnen.
p. cm.—(Bibliographies and indexes in mass media and communications, ISSN
1041-8350 ; no. 12)
Includes indexes.
ISBN 0-313-27957-8 (alk. paper)
1. Editing—Bibliography. I. Hinnen, Dean A. II. Hinnen, Kathleen. III. Title. IV. Series.
Z5165.S69 2003
[PN162]
016.808'027—dc21 2003042137
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available.
Copyright © 2003 by Bruce W. Speck, Dean A. Hinnen, and Kathleen Hinnen
All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be
reproduced, by any process or technique, without the
express written consent of the publisher.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2003042137
ISBN: 0-313-27957-8
ISSN: 1041-8350
First published in 2003
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Contents
Introduction ix
Teaching Revision in Academic Settings 1
Theoretical Perspectives 1
Research on Revision 3
Classroom Issues 16
College Composition and Graduate Classes 16
K-12 34
High School 34
Middle School 39
Elementary and Pre-School 42
Business Classes 48
Developmental/Basic Writing Classes 48
Scientific Courses 56
Technical Writing Courses 56
Writing Across the Curriculum Classes 59
Special Issues 60
Creative Writing 60
Grading 63
Learning Disabled Students 66
Materials for Teaching Revision 70
Non-Native Writers/ESL Classes 71
Revising and Peer Groups 75
Revising and Adult Writers 87
Examples of Revision 88
Sentence Combining 88
Technology 88
Word Processing 8 8
VI Contents
Speech Synthesizers 98
General Technology 99
General Issues in Revision 102
Teaching Revision in Nonacademic Settings 109
In the Workplace 109
Teaching Editing in Academic Settings 113
Theoretical Perspectives 113
Research on Editing 114
Classroom Issues 119
College Composition and Graduate Classes 119
K-12 123
High Schools 123
Middle and Elementary Schools 124
Business Classes 124
Developmental/Basic Writing Classes 125
Journalism Classes 126
Technical Writing Classes 127
Proofreading 137
College Composition 137
High School and Middle School Classes 138
Developmental/Basic Writing Classes 141
Technical Writing Classes 145
Special Issues in Proofreading 146
Proofreading and Non-Native and ESL Students 147
Special Issues in Editing 149
Creative Writing 149
Editing Process 150
Interpersonal Skills 150
Non-Native/ESL Classes 151
Peer Editing 152
Editing and Adult Writers 155
Spelling 155
Technology 156
Word Processing 156
General Issues in Editing 157
Teaching Editing in Nonacademic Settings 163
In the Workplace 163
For Publication 164
Newspapers 164
Magazines 167
Editing and Revision in the Writing Process 169
Basic/Developmental Classes 169
College Classes 171
Technical Writing Classes 173
Contents vu
Special Issues 175
Creative Writing 175
Language Classes 175
Professional Writers 178
Author Index 179
Subject Index 189
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Introduction
This annotated bibliography is the last in a series of bibliographies devoted to
facets of the entire writing process, including the publication of texts. The other
bibliographies in the series are Editing, Publication Peer Review, Managing the
Publishing Process, The Grading of Writing, and Collaborative Writing. The
word series is used in a loose sense because neither Greenwood's nor my
original intention included a master plan that specified six bibliographies.
Rather, the original book contract Greenwood issued to me about ten years ago
was for a bibliography on teaching editing. However, after I explored the
literature on editing, I saw that sufficient material existed for a book-length
bibliography on editing and that another volume could be devoted to teaching
editing. I had a problem, though. In investigating the literature on editing, I had
wandered into sources that were neither fish nor foul, sources that deal with
editing and other writing/publishing functions. As I sought to determine how to
best segment the vast literature on writing and publishing, I found that peer
review was a prominent topic, and Marilyn Brownstein, my editor at
Greenwood, accepted for publication the bibliography on peer review. The
literature on managing the publishing process comprised another book in what I
saw as a series of topics on the theme of text production.
My attention was diverted from facets of publishing text to the
pedagogy of text production as I returned to the topic of teaching revising and
editing with the intention of finally producing a bibliography on teaching
editing, but my attention was diverted, and I became immersed in the literature
about grading writing. At about that time, George Butler took over editorial
responsibility for my bibliographic enterprise, and he has been a source of
strong support and sagacious advice. After the bibliography on grading writing
was finished, my career as an academic changed, and I become more involved in
administrative work. Thus, I found it necessary to call upon colleagues to work