Current May 19, 2006
Textbook Homeworks
Chapter 4, Exercise 4 - copymarking practice (PDF format, all others .doc)
Chapter 8, Exercise 3 - style sheet to go with copyedit of Ignitron Tubes
Chapter 9, Exercise 6 - capitalization, spelling, abbreviations, word usage
Chapter 10, Exercises 4-5 - parts of speech; sentence parts
Chapter 10, Exercise 7 - dangling modifiers
Chapter 11, Exercises 1, 2, 9 - phrases and clauses, sentence types, compound terms and hyphenation
Chapter 11, Exercise 6 - correcting faulty parallelism
Chapter 12, Exercise 1 - editing numbers, symbols, and abbreviations.
Chapter 12, Exercise 2 - editing mathematics. NOTE: this is a new markup (correcting errors on Rude's key)
Chapter 15, Exercises 1-2 - using the sentence core effectively; improving sentences with parallelism and subordination
Chapter 16, Exercises 1-2 - editing verbs to put action in the verb and weed out passives (exercise 2 involves distinguishing passive voice from other uses of the verb "to be").
Chapter 17, Exercise 5 (was Ex. 4-5) - editing for improved organization.
Chapter 18, Exercise 6 (was Ex. 4)- editing to improve visual accessibility.
Other Exercises
Editing Tables, Exercise 2 - Performance of Alternative Configurations
Editing for Organization (team edit) - Experimental Apparatus