Friday, December 24, 2010

4202 Lab Schedule for Spring 2011


Link to JOU4202 Syllabus
Of course, all of this is tentative and subject to change with notice. 

Link to Edit Jobs 
Link to Editing Teams
Link to Class Blogs  


In Class
Digital Media / Outside Work
Unless otherwise noted, all out-of-class work is due Sunday at 6 p.m.
Week 1 – Jan. 5-7

Intro to class, moi, one another, and syllabus
Assign L-Drives. Our lab is jou4202b  followed by your number. Log-on How Do.
Team Report on Media Entrepreneur (See syllabus for description)
Create Teams: Ace / King / Queen / Jack for Team Presentations on Media Ride-Along Report (slug) with a media entrepreneur – here are some examples – are scheduled for Week 14. In addition, each team member will post a copy of their combined and flawlessly edited report to their blogs. Teams will also meet near end of semester and create a Tumblr site titled Entrepreneurial Journalism. Then share username and password with all. Check out 12 Essential News Media Tumblrs You Should Follow to see how different media are using Tumblr.
Digital Media Tools: To aid communication and collaboration with this project, you might want to utilize Google Shared Spaces or a shared folder in Dropbox

Weekly Challenge: Grammar Checkup (handout)
FYI: If you are interested in becoming an editor, you might consider joining the American Copy Editors Society (ACES). Its website is at: http://www.copydesk.org/


Case Study 1 (slug Case Study1 and post to your blog): Eagle Snatches Dog Editing Exercise. * Due Sunday at 6 p.m.
Digital Media Tools
http://www.lynda.com/ & W3Schools Online Web Tutorials: http://w3schools.com/
Blogging: Set up blog with Blogger with title starting with your last name. E-mail url to me by Sunday before next lab. Also, add an RSS feed to your blog. This is graded X or 0. (Keep in mind that I will post links to all of your fellow editors’ blogs on the class blog The Scriptorium.)
Who Are You? Please paste this brief survey as your first blog post for this class with answers to the questions - and feel free to add anything else you think might be relevant.



Dropbox: Set up a Dropbox account. Dropbox Tutorial Assignment: Take an interesting reading or story and put it on a Word document. Move a copy of document to your Dropbox account. Then share the document. Put relevant link to shared Dropbox document on a post on your blog. Be sure to activate the link on your post. (Slug this Dropbox.) 
Google Reader (I will want to see this at next lab, so call it up when you sign on) Set up a Google Reader account by Sunday before next lab with at least five feeds. This is graded.
See: Video on Using Google Reader & Google Reader Tutorial

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: Introduction 1-16 & The Fundamentals (through Typography) 18-25.
Let’s learn enough about InDesign to work out some newspaper design basics: InDesign video tutorials
Read for FYI: AP Style: Common AP Problems & Fake AP Site & AP Online Subscription: If you are serious about going into any form of editing, a yearly subscription to the online version of AP Stylebook might prove helpful.
Read: For Your Blog (Read, take some notes, begin to rough out your blog assignment)
Is the title Copy Editor becoming obsolete? (this is an ACES discussion)
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Introduction (An editor’s credo) & Strategy 2: Do Assignment 2 (slug Strat2 & post to blog) & Read Strategy 4 & Developing a Breaking News Plan
Optional But Edifying: Readings on RSS (a collection of readings on RSS on my Delicious bookmarks) & Top 50 Journalism Blogs & New Media Biblio
Week 2 – Jan. 10-14

Google Reader – load it when you sign on.
Review: Eagle Snatches Dog -- What are the questions you would ask editor?
Weekly Challenge 1: On such things as current affairs (read the news), punctuation, grammar, spelling, and, possibly, items from my Twitter tweets on editing, and any other readings. This is on Sakai. Work in teams.  
Review Harrower 1-25 (Dummies & InDesign)
Pre-digital technology – pica pole, proportion wheel, dummy sheets – tabloid & fullsize (broadsheet) & a spike
Some other vocab
Case Study 2 (slug Case Study2 and post to blog): Teams: An evacuation of the UF football game due to a bomb threat.
Teams: Tucson Massacre. 
In thinking about this and writing this up, consider last week's readings.
 Edit Challenge Week 2:
GWE: Close Editing Yourself – (in Sakai) (Two full pages at 1-inch margins in 12 point Times Roman) You have one hour. And like everything else, save a copy in your Gmail account or Dropbox. (Goal: Assess your writing and grammar skills & your ability to follow instructions and think critically – all on deadline.)


FYI: If you have an interest in design, become familiar with http://www.newsdesigner.com & http://www.snd.org/ Also, check out the Newseum’s Front Pages installed on Tumblr
Also, check out TimHarrower.com



Digital Media Tools
Google Reader & Dropbox rr194602 / J1
Set up your own Twitter account & check out Twitter Tutorial
Go to my Twitter account and follow me. Search for ronrodgers. Also, connect my RSS feed to your reader. When you follow me, I will receive a Gmail message that you have done so. This is graded X or 0. Follow http://twitter.com/ApStyleBook on your Twitter account

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: The Fundamentals: The Four Basic Elements through Text 26-31: InDesign video tutorials
Read: For Your Blog (Read, take some notes, begin to rough out your blog assignment) What Are Protocols? & then print Protocols Anecdote and bring to next class. Rethinking at NYT: Especially check out Times Topics and the notion of "living articles" (also, what has the Times decided to do about charging?) & How Journalists Can Use Twitter Lists to Customize, Discover and Curate (What does it mean to curate. What is a curator?)
Read and Blog No. 1 (covers this week and last) Due by this coming Sunday. Read and then on your blog, summarize, analyze and extrapolate, which means to generalize, which means to draw from specific cases, the assigned readings or others or your own experience for more general cases (in this case the art and craft of editing, especially in an increasingly digital world). In other words, hone your skills at thinking critically.
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 41: Do Assignment 3 (headlines) (slug Strat41 & post to blog) & Strategy 5: Do Assignment 4 (news judgment) (slug Strat5 & post to blog)
Week 3 – Jan. 17-21

Weekly Challenge 2:

Discussion: Headlines & Kinds of Headlines
Edit Challenge Week 3.1: Head Exercises 1  (There are four exercises here. Cut and paste copies of your headlines to the Sakai exercise. This is graded X or 0.
Design: Review Harrower: Basic Elements through Text 26-31: Headlines – Dummies & InDesign

Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 21 (holding a story)
Case Study 3: Protocols Anecdote (Blog on this before end of day. This is graded.)


Team Meet
Exercise: This is a team exercise. After following the instructions at the site, use the FOIA Letter Generator to request documents related to some subject that interests you. Just to keep things simple, let’s keep the request inside Florida (state, a county, or a city). Each team member must post a copy of the FOI letter to their blog – but note which team members is the corresponding author. The letter posted to blog and slugged FOI is due by Friday of Week 4. This is graded X or 0: You will give a presentation of your FOI results in Week 14 and post those results to your blog (slug FOI Results).

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: The Fundamentals: Photos through Troubleshooting 32-43. InDesign video tutorials
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 42 (points of entry) & Strategy 44: Do Assignment 2 (photos). Slug Strat 44
Read For Blog: 100 Things Journalists Should Never Do (Note how Poynter uses Twitter and hashtags to create an interactive conversation) & Frank Fee's Tips for Accuracy & Your newsroom could learn something from TMZ (also read the comments)
Do: Explore AP site:  Before next lab, go to:
www.apexchange.com
Username:
JOU4201
Password: ufcjc
Peruse through the AP Exchange to see how it works both for stories and images. 
Then take a look at AP Terminology and while looking at AP site, find three examples of three particular terms. Cut and paste examples from AP site onto a Word document you put in your Dropbox,  explain the term and then share link to document on your blog. Slug it AP Terms
Optional But Edifying: When the media makes a mistake, Craig Silverman takes note. He’s the creator of the website Regret the Error, and he joins us again with his annual round-up of the year in corrections, errors, apologies and more. Silverman says 2009 was the year of fact checking, but not by the people you’d think. & The Year in Media Errors and Corrections & Who is Daniel Lippman? & The Truth on Government Spin
Week 4 – Jan. 24-28


Weekly Challenge 3:
Review Headlines
Discussion: Cutlines – Writing Cutlines & Writing cutlines or captions & Writing Cutlines Exercise 1
Edit Challenge Week 4.1: Budgeting News: All department heads prepare daily news budgets – lists of their major stories for the coming issue. Budgets are discussed at the managing editor's daily budget meeting. Here is an example of a budget line for a news budget written by a reporter and submitted to her editor. Here is an example of a sports news budget.
News Budget 1: Using AP, create a five-story budget for the front page of a national newspaper. Think diversity. This is the kind of critical news judgments editors make daily. It is one of the reasons why you need to keep up with the news and why you need to understand the demographics and the interests of your readership. Note the approximate length of each story. (It tends to vary, but the generally accepted equation is 25-35 words equal one column inch. & Explain why you think each story was chosen. & Note if there is any art (the page needs some art). & Note possible graphics. & Propose possible alternative ways of telling or explaining each story digitally. & And note which is lead story.
Edit Challenge Week 4.2 – Budgeting to Page: The Fundamentals & Cutlines – Drawing a Dummy
Then to InDesign  
Case Study 4: How Graphic Shall We Be?

For Your Edification Re Budgets:
Here are some actual budgets from the Villages Daily Sun. The Wire budget recommendations are compiled by the news editor. They are discussed during the 3 p.m. budget meeting and 2 or 3 stories are chosen for A1 while 2 or 3 more are chosen for A3 or A13.  (known as the Second Front Page. These are combined with local budget stories selected ahead of time for the front page. This also includes the C section which includes local, state and business news. After the budget meeting, the news editor combines the wire picks with the local stories for A and adds in wire stories from thethe remainder of the A section pages. This is represented by the Final A Section Budget.
Digital Media Tools: PolitiFact – A Guided Tour (this site won a Pulitzer in 2009) & PolitiFact's Guide to Fact-checking
Assignment: Run a story through Poligraft and then post to your blog a summary of story and the citations it lists. (slug is Poligraft.) Make sure it is a story that has at least three Poligraft citations. Also, add to the top of the post your analysis of this tool, especially as it relates to doing journalism.
Here are some other fact-checking sources you might want to put in your Delicious bookmarks  (See Digital Media Tools Week 8): FactCheck.org & journalismnet.com & News Archive Search & PolitiFact.com & PR Watch.org & SourceWatch & RefDesk.com
Factfinding links on my Delicious account: http://delicious.com/TripleR/FactFinding

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: Story Design: Stories Without Art through The Dominant Photo 47-61. InDesign video tutorials
Read, but no need to blog: Keyword Slug Line & The Filing Practices chapter in your AP Stylebook (expect to be quizzed on both these items.) Especially understand terms such as 2nd lead / writethru / 3rd ld-writethru / take / adds / advance slugs / advisories and digests / bulletins / clarifications / corrections / AM, PM, BC /
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 28 (accuracy) & Strategy 29 (fairness) & Strategy 30 (balance)
Read and Blog No. 2 due by this Sunday
Week 5 – Jan. 31-Feb. 4 

Weekly Challenge 4:
Discussion: Editing Wire & Cut & Compile
Edit Challenge Week 5.1: Edit Exercise: Cut & Compile (in Sakai) & Compiling Stories Compile these two stories into one 10-inch story – Afghan Poll – USA Today & Afghan Poll – NYT 

Edit Challenge Week 5.2: Budgeting News
News Budget 2: Using AP, create a five-story budget for the front page of paper that appeals to students at a Florida University. This is the kind of critical news judgments editors make daily. It is why you need to keep up with the news and why you need to understand the demographics and the interests of your readership. Note the approximate length of each story. (It tends to vary, but the generally accepted equation is 25-35 words equal one column inch. & Explain why you think each story was chosen. & Note if there is any art (the page needs some art). & Note possible graphics. & Propose possible alternative ways of telling or explaining each story digitally. & And note which is lead story.
Edit Challenge Week 5.3: Budgeting to Page – Dummies & InDesign
Case Study 5: In your blog, discuss these two stories from above – Afghan Poll – USA Today & Afghan Poll – NYT as they relate to balance and the kind of reporting that informs them. Slug blog post Afghan
Digital Media Tools: Searching Searching & On Google Search & Search Tips (pdf)
Search Exercise: Do Google search for the words –  is barack obama muslim – without quotations marks.
Google Search Bomb: Bush = http://bit.ly/4qQYb & Google Search Bomb: Kerry = http://bit.ly/dwn9XC
Search Exercise (Pick a topic) & Google Battle (two words and highest score)

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: Through the end of Story Design 62-72. InDesign video tutorials
Read: Writing For the Web & Re Concision = N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse (see comment on NYT’s lookup function)& Don't Use Big Words & Journalism's many crises & How to Save Journalism (Search down through the table of contents for this article)
Read (not for blog): Headline writing for the web = http://www.jprof.com/onlinejn/webjn-headlines.html

Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 32 - Do Assignment 1 (tight writing) You can use LexisNexis or Google News & Read Strategy 33 (trim a story) (post Strat32 to your blog)
Week 6 – Feb. 7-11

Hand in your dummies
Weekly Challenge 5 
& George Orwell's Five Rules for Writers
Edit Challenge 6.1: Concision Exercises

Edit Challenge 6.3 – Web Heds
Headline writing for the Web Exercise 1  
Headline writing for the Web exercise 2  
Review Harrower 62-72
Edit Challenge 6.2 – Design/Heds
Case Study 6: Google Alert Anecdote

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: Grids through Modular Page Design 76-87.
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 11: Do Assignment 1 or 2 (structure quotes) (blog as Strat11) & Read Strategy 12: Do Assignment 2 (structure nut graphs) (blog as Strat12)
Read and Blog No. 3 due by Sunday of Week 7
Week 7 – Feb. 14-18

Weekly Challenge 6:
Twitter Concision
Edit Challenge 7.1: Vampires Compile
Design: Review Harrower 76-87
Edit Challenge 7.2 – Story Design 73-74

Case Study 7: Blog on this by Sunday. Jimmy’s World (Here is why editors are important) Post a case study on your blog re this –  after reading the three items slugged Jimmy's World in Sakai. What does this case study reveal to be the skills demanded of an editor with everything he or she edits? What were the red flags an editor should have spotted? List them.

How a Copy Editor Might Have Averted Disaster

Digital Media Tool: Google Docs (links on my Delicious bookmarks) & Google Docs Tour & Google Docs Video Assignment: Create a document in Google Docs and then share the link with me. Put the link on a post on your blog. Be sure to activate the link. This is grade X or 0 (blog as Google Docs)

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: Front Page Design through Troubleshooting 88-105
Read: Who's Doing Good Work in Online News? (Part 1) & Who's Doing Good Work in Online News? (Part 2) With both of these, view the links and read the comments.
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 13 (structure cosmic graph) & Read Strategy 14: Do Assignment 1 (give credit) (blog as Strat14)

Week 8 – Feb. 21-25
Bring to class:

Edit Challenge 6.3 – Web Heds
Make bold your favorite headline with each and add note why it is.
Make bold your least favorite headline and add note why it is.
Print this out and bring to Week 8 class.

Weekly Challenge 7:

Review earlier Web heds. 
Edit Challenge 8.2 – Web Heds

Edit Challenge 8.3

Case Study 8: Trend Stories (Slug blog post with this title) Library Story
Scan through: A Plague of Shoplifters! – http://www.slate.com/id/2207504 & Booming Evangelical Attendance – http://www.slate.com/id/2207294/ & Teens and Bombs – http://www.slate.com/id/2206517/ & Dudes With Cats – http://www.slate.com/id/2201764/ & Trendspotting: Is there really an increase in teen prostitution? – http://www.slate.com/id/2086925/
Digital Media Tool
Set up a Delicious account: Assignment: Bookmark at least five items under the same tag. Then put link to that Delicious tag on blog post. Be sure to activate the link.  This is graded X or 0 See: Delicious Tutorial Video Basics (blog as Delicious)

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: Some Photo Guidelines through Trouble Shooting 110-140
Read but no blog: Story Ideas: 50 places to shop for story ideas & Al's Morning Meeting & Enticing New Sources of News and Views
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 3: Do Assignment 1 (story ideas) Post to blog.   Read Strategy 6 (curiosity) & Strategy 7: Do Assignment 3 or 4 (big picture)
Read and Blog No. 4 due by this Sunday
Week 9 – Feb. 28-March 4

Weekly Challenge 8:

Edit Challenge 9.1 – Story Ideas: Teams: One hour. Return with two fully fleshed-out story ideas. Write up budget lines that:
  • Explain what this story would mean to your readers and how it is related to the bigger picture – that is the ongoing discourse about a subject or issue. 
  • Again, this is the place to think critically. Each idea must be well-developed, to include such things as ideas about sourcing, graphics, photos, length, etc. 
  • Also, talk about how this story might be told in a non-print mode online. You will each file these to your blog. 
You might want to use this list:

1. Make a list
2. Think about change
3. Think about the unusual
4. Ask yourself what interests you
5. Think about the next steps
6. Think about the people
7. Apply the five W's
8. Ask how
9. Ask others
10.  Read 

On The Media on SEO  
FOI update and team meetings
Digital Media Tool (Finding Sources)
Assignment: Submit a query on a relevant topic that a reporter might want to seek sources for. It could be something you are working on. Post a copy of the response to your blog. This is graded X or 0: HARO (Help A Reporter Out) (blog as Haro)
Also, check out Listorious, which says it has the best Twitter people search on the web so you can find anyone by topic, region or profession -- powered by data from the tens of thousands of list curators. Once you find the right person, you can interview them by asking questions over Listorious. 
Out of Class 
Your only homework is to shoot and post to your blog at least five pictures taken during your Spring Break. Each photo should have a cutline written in newspaper style. You might want to go back and read readings on cutlines from Week 4. Also, go back and read Harrower on cutlines. Also, print out two copies of each photo with the cutlines under each photo and bring to class in Week 10. (blog as Cutlines) Also, keep in mind that these pictures are public. 
Have a good, but safe Spring Break.
SPRING BREAK  
Week 10 – March 14-18

Design: Cropping and layout and cutlines
Edit Challenge 10.1: Harrower Exercises 141-142
Read On Writing Summaries
Edit Challenge 10.2: Web Heds & Summaries
Headlines and summaries for the web 1
Headlines and summaries for the web 2  
Case Study 10: Edit Suicidal Blonde: Edit this and post to your blog. Then afterward, add case study to end. Slug both editing exercise and case study  Linking Case Study. Use the following in your case study: Ethics of Linking &The art of linking & The Thorny Question of Linking & What Makes a Good Link
Digital Media Tool
Linking – and so much else in the world of aggregating digital media – can create not just issues of ethics, but also of copyright. You might find this Copyright Slider helpful in that regards.

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower:  Nuts and Bolts 143-160
Read: Revamping the Story Flow for Journalists & The Reconstruction of American Journalism - A report by Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudson
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 18: Do Assignment 1 (skeptical editing) (blog as Strat18)
Read and Blog No. 5 due by this Sunday
Week 11 – March 21-25


Update - FOI & Media Ride-Along
Edit Challenge 11  Read Finding Links & then each team does the assignment at bottom of reading.  File to Sakai. 
Edit Challenge 11.1: 
1. Print Heads for Dummy Stories based on your specs. Consider each column to be two inches wide.
2. Web Heads and Summaries for Dummy Stories
Digital Media Tool
Facebook: Assignment: Post to your blog a brief summary about how journalists are using and how you might think they could use Facebook to do journalism. Do you have any innovative ideas? Talk about any legal or ethical issues that might arise. Also, in this post, explain how you would define social media. This is graded X or 0: Facebook Facts & Figures & The Journalist’s Guide to Facebook & Using Facebook Profiles as a Source for Stories & Journalists Use Facebook to Find Sources and Promote Stories (blog as Facebook)

Out of Class
Design: Read Harrower: Graphics and Sidebars 161-198
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 19 (pace) & Strategy 20 (sensitivity)
Read Responses to the report you read last week from Martin Langeveld, Jan Schaffer, and  Paul Starr
Do: Post a story of at least 500 words you have written in the past to your blog. We will be analyzing it next week.
Week 12 – March 28-April 1

Work on Media Ride-Along Report 
 
Case Study 12
Wordle Wordled Speeches: Slug your blog post Worldled Speeches and briefly talk about how you might imagine Worldle (or similar text analysis tools) might be used in doing journalism. See: Wordle and Elections & Obama vs. Bush & Inaugural Speeches


Digital Media Tool
Assignment: Use you’re the url to your blog and Worldle the blog. Adjust the resulting image to your liking. Download as image and then post to your blog. This is graded X or 0 (blog as Wordle)
Also, Wordle your own resume and then as above post image to your blog. This is grade X or 0
Wordle & Wordle Tutorial 1 & Wordle Tutorial 2 & Wordle Tip

Out of Class
Helpful site: W3Schools Online Web Tutorials: http://w3schools.com/
& Top 9 Job Sites to Bookmark for Your Career Search
NOTE: Write and flawlessly edit a resume and bring  to class Week 13 (next week) for a Resume Workshop. Before class, post resume to Dropbox and then post shared link to your blog. Slug Resume Link
Think Like an Editor Readings & Exercises: Read Strategy 25 (grammar) & Read Strategy 27 (punctuation) & Read Strategy 26 (spelling)
Read and Blog No. 6 due by Sunday of Week 13:
Week 13 – April 4-8

Jeopeditry Challenge: Homographs, Homonyms, Homophones, Heteronyms and Stressonyms
Resume Workshop:  Bring in copies of your resume.
UF Career Resource Center
Wordle Review
Edit Challenge 13: (Begin this week. Continue next week's lab.)1. Create a budget from AP for front page of a local community paper much like the Sun.  Be sure to consult Harrower.
2. You need at least two pieces of art, one dominant. Crop both of these to fit design.
3. Design the page on a dummy. 
3. Transfer page design to InDesign. InDesign video tutorials
4. Write print headlines for page. 
5. Create a Word document and write Web heds and summaries for each story.  Slug Web Heds and attach to Edit Challenge 13.
6. Create a package of 200-word briefs using the stories on your page. Create a document and attach to Edit Challenge 13. Slug Brief Package.



Digital Media Tool
Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme's HTML. Check out 12 Essential News Media Tumblrs You Should Follow to see how different media are using Tumblr. Then create your own Tumblr blog. Post the link to your blog. Slug it Tumblr. This is graded X or 0

Out of Class
Week 14 – April 11-15

Presentations on FOI reports. Each team member will post a copy of their combined report to their blogs. 
Continue work on Edit Challenge 13

Work on Media Ride-Along Report
Digital Media Tool
://URLFAN is designed to discover what websites the blogosphere is discussing all in real time. Assignment: Discover how your favorite “fun” website and your favorite news site are rated by ://URLFAN. Add any others that you are curious about. Post what you find to your blog. Slug it URLFAN. This is graded X or 0

Out of Class
Read and Blog No. 7 due by Sunday of Week 15

Resume and Cover Letter: Due in Sakai by Friday of this week at 8 a.m. Your grade is based on how well you present yourself and on whether the resume and letter are flawlessly edited. I want a professional looking and flawlessly edited copy of an updated Resume, a template Cover Letter that would accompany an application for a position at a media outlet, and a link to your completed LinkedIn account (http://www.linkedin.com/). No pink, scented resumes. Why? Check this out. 
Learning objective
:  Discern the best practices when it comes to the sometimes confusing world of resumes -- and help you find a job.
Week 15 – April 18-22
Wednesday, April 20, last day of class

Presentations on Media Ride-Along Report with a media entrepreneur.
Each team member will post a copy of their combined report to their blogs.


The final days of spring semester 2011 are scheduled during Passover this year. There are 3 dates that are potential major conflicts for students if final class exams should be given then.  The dates are April 18, 19, and 20 (the last 3 days of the semester).  These 3 days are the most important days religiously (the Passover Seders are the evenings of the 18 and 19).

Hang on to Think Like an Editor as part of your professional library. This section could well come in handy not too far in your future.
Part III: ACT LIKE AN EDITOR
Using Authority Responsibly
46. Corrections: Own Up to Mistakes
47. Credibility: Put Yourself above Reproach
48. Plagiarism and Fabrication: What Editors Can Do
49. Deadline Pressure: How to Get Along in the Newsroom
50. Keep Asking Questions