Advanced Technical Writing 2005

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Advanced Technical Writing2005
Session 2
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Today in Class

• Show-n-tell, your CSS objects exercise
• P1 sample files - seeing objects
• Editorial roles for P1
• Developmental
• User Experience
• Production
• P1 ideaswhat are you thinking of?

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Our CSS objects exercise

• Take a look at a short but familiar genrechoose
  one you can see a few examples for easily such as
  a Job Ad.
• Break it up into the objects that would have to
  be defined in a style sheetdont worry about the
  right syntax too much at this pointconcentrate
  on defining objects, attributes, etc.

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Editorial Roles for P1

• Development Team - responsible for ensuring
  consistency of articles at the thematic level,
  suitability for audience, etc. will decide major
  content sections and guidelines for developing
  these
• User-Experience - responsible for the look and
  feel of the zine will establish global styles
  and make decisions about exceptions/changes to
  these will create and publish the .css file that
  authors link to
• Production Team - responsible for making sure the
  zine functions will establish file-naming
  policies, image size/resolution, and similar
  will give procedural guidance to authors about
  storing files, linking, etc.

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Editorial Team Deliverables

• Development Team - revised full article template
  w/inline comments guiding authors
• User-Experience - revised style sheet
• Production Team - working sample w/ dummy text
  short (very short) list of steps/guidelines

Development User Experience Teams should post
deliverables by end of class session 4.
Production Team, shortly after that.
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Next Time

• Semantic Markup 1 - CSS, XML, More
• Read Rockley, Ch. 1 and Ch. 14 Clark (pdf)
• Send e-mail to Bill H-D w/ editorial role ack