Schick

Kurt Schick maintains, "As anyone who's translated a manuscript from MLA to APA and then to Chicago format knows, the only differences are sequence, punctuation, and format. Why, then, could we not simply ask students to include a list of references with the essential information? Why couldn't we wait to infect them with citation fever until they are ready to publish (and then hand them the appropriate style guide, which is typically no more difficult to follow than instructions for programming your DVR)?" (par. 9)

What do you make of his assessment? What does knowing how to cite "correctly" within a discipline's guidelines say about the values of that discipline?

Your response is due Thursday night, by 11:59 p.m.

Klinger et. al

Engaging a piece of advice from Klinger et al., what might you need to consider when revising and editing your original text?

Rose response

At the end of his discussion on the dialogic relationship between academic and public discourse, Rose comments on his students' realizations: they "gain a heightened sense of the potential relevance of their work to issues of public concern" (289). Consider your own academic piece as you begin to revise: what potential relevance can you see your ideas having for the public?

Bitzer's "The Rhetorical Situation"

Discuss how your learnings and insight from this course--WRTC 540 Professional Editing--reflect the three components of Bitzer's notion of rhetorical situation: exigence, audience, and constraints. Please limit yourself to 300 words. This entry is due Tuesday, Feb. 21, by 11:59 p.m.