Course Syllabus

INI 410H Scholarly Editing and Publishing 2011-12

Instructor: Roger Riendeau
Innis College, Room 315
Phone: 978-7789
Email: roger.riendeau@utoronto.ca

Class Schedule
I. The Nature and Context of Scholarly Editing and Publishing
A. The Editorial Mind and Method
B. Anatomy of a Scholarly Publication (Canadian Journal of African Studies)
C. Publication Proposal and Manuscript Submission

II. The Peer Review Process
A. Who Decides? Editorial Collaboration
B. Criteria for Editorial Decision-making
C. Dealing with Decisions (Accept/Reject/Revise)

III. The Editorial Production Process
A. Copyediting: The Cog in the Wheel
B. Line Editing: Keeping Up Appearances
C. Conformity to House Style

IV. The Publishing Process
A. Proofreading: Facilitating the Publishing Triumvirate
B. The Role fo the Editor in the Production and Marketing Process
C. Scholarly Publishing and Editing in the Electronic Age

Assignment Schedule

Readings about Writing
The reading material that may be helpful for writing the research essay for this course is available on the INI204Y page of my website www.rogerriendeau.com. The Online Resources link includes the websites of various Writing Centres or Labs, Writing Programs and courses, Philosophy courses on Critical Thinking and Logic, and books on Writing and Rhetoric. Exploration of these websites will reveal a substantial volume of information of varying relevance to INI204Y. I will give you direction on the navigation of these websites and the use of their resources throughout the year either during class or through the Class Discussion Forum on my website.

Readings about Editing and Publishing
Books on Editing and Publishing are also numerous and of varying quality. I have listed a three of my favorite texts below which you may wish to read but which I do not expect you to purchase. Indeed, excerpts from these texts are available by clicking on the title below.

Butcher, Judith, Caroline Drake and Maureen Leach. 2006. Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors, and Proofreaders. 4th edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Einsohn, Amy. 2011. The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications. 2nd edition. Berkeley: University of California Press. Note that the weblink is the 2000 edition since the 2011 edition cannot yet not be viewed online.

Gross, Gerald C., ed. 1994. Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know about What Editors Do. 3rd edition. New York: Grove Press.

Notes:
This course is an exercise in disciplined and organized writing. Moreover, the instructor needs sufficient time to evaluate each assignment and to provide meaningful comments. Accordingly, unless documented justification is provided, each assignment must be submitted by the due date, or it will be subject to a penalty of one full grade for every three days of lateness.

Section B.1. of the University of Toronto’s Code of Behaviour on Academic Matters stipulates:
It shall be an offence for a student knowingly:
(d) to represent as one's own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e. to commit plagiarism ...;
(e) to submit, without the knowledge and approval of the instructor to whom it is submitted, any academic work for which credit has previously been obtained or is being sought in another course or program of study in the University or elsewhere….

The common penalty for these kinds of academic offences (often determined by the Office of the Dean of Arts and Science) is a grade of zero (0) for the entire course and a notation of the violation on the student’s transcript.