My Portfolio
Conceptual EditingFor this type of editing, I worked with a peer in my class. I first connected with her by sending an email and we arranged a Zoom meeting. During the Zoom meeting, we each reviewed our vision of the pieces we wished to create.
Her idea is to create a conversation between two fictional characters who correspond via Facebook text. The conversation will include indications of character one dealing with social anxiety and character two assisting/helping the first character by encouraging the use of Facebook. Within the text, the readers will be exposed to the various issues surrounding social anxiety and how one might cope with this anxiety. In regard to editorial guidance, I suggested using Facebook Pages, rather than Accounts, will allow her to alleviate the idea of having to sign-in and out of two separate accounts which would allow more time to focus on the exchanges between the characters. In addition, by utilizing the post scheduler, she could decrease the amount of time needed to log on and create additional content. With the creation of pages from her own account, she would have more control over them and could, if she wanted, end/continue the process as long as she wished. I also encouraged the use of images (which she intended to use) as my experience has shown images captures the attention of Facebook users faster than text only posts. I suggested, due to time constraints, the idea of utilizing the Facebook post scheduler, as well as the use of a hashtag to draw in participation/views of the pages. The next steps my partner will take is creating a timeline for the characters, their dialogue development and obtaining art/visuals for each character. |
Structural EditingFor this type of editing, I worked with a peer in my class. Felicia and I connected via email first and agreed to meet on Zoom. Prior to our meeting, we submitted to each other a copy of our proposals and, in my partner’s case a poem she intended to use along with her mind map.
Felicia’s goal is to create a “healing place” based on her knowledge of the healing process. One of these steps includes a victim not only relating an event, but to hear said event relayed to them by someone else. Felicia’s project is to create a podcast which will take this submission and broadcast them. When discussing how best to create an environment which would generate submissions, I suggest a website to host and announce her podcast. We focused on the sample site she presented titled: “Story Corps”. By reviewing the website, we discussed what would work on her own website vs these individuals used. We discussed she not only offer the submission button on each page of the site, but also an article which substantiates medically the healing process she is encouraging. With this, we were able to tighten down some of her mind map ideas. This step will strengthen her next steps which will include the creation of the website along with recording a podcast. |
Line Editing For this type of editing, I worked with a peer in my class. We connected via email and she sent a link to her website. Although the website was incomplete, I worked on line editing the information presented to date. My notes included the following information: Welcome to Behind the Scenes, the Garden Adventure (Very personal, love it.)
Feel free to connect with us. Grow your garden with us! – “us” is used twice and can come across redundant. I’d rephrase to something like: Feel free to connect and grow your garden with us! Otherwise, the flow and style of the website is done very nicely and provides a very naturalistic feeling. I like how some of the images are moving, rather than static. The one image that has a pop-up word for the buds/seeds is nice. If you’re going to have that linked to a post, that’d be nice. Otherwise, as a tag, it works as well. |
Copy EditingFor this type of editing, I worked with a peer in my class. We connected via email. She sent me her narrative in a word doc format and from there I completed copy edits. I loved this project! The ability to go from point to point and read about her adventure is such a great idea. She had mentioned concerns for too much information at the points and I disagreed. For the most part, it was interesting to read each description while looking at where the traveler was located at the time. The fluidity of her map is good. There are a couple things I recommended she reconsider and/or change on the website itself:
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