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Power Plays, Collaboration, And Copy Editing:

Power Plays, Collaboration, And Copy Editing: . Interdependence And Conflict Interaction In The Copy Editing Process. Erin Stegman Fall 2013 Senior Capstone Project Presentation Project Mentor: Dr. Amy Rupiper Taggart. Special Thanks To:. Dr. Amy Rupiper taggart Dr. suzzanne kelley

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Power Plays, Collaboration, And Copy Editing:

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  1. Power Plays, Collaboration, And Copy Editing: Interdependence And Conflict Interaction In The Copy Editing Process Erin Stegman Fall 2013 Senior Capstone Project Presentation Project Mentor: Dr. Amy Rupiper Taggart

  2. Special Thanks To: Dr. Amy Rupipertaggart Dr. suzzannekelley And New rivers press book teams and authors

  3. How the Copy Editing Process Works • At traditional publishing houses, an acquisitions editor will solicit or receive and unsolicited manuscript and decide that the subject area or storyline is worth spending a large amount of time and money on. • Senior editor will take over the project and first do substantive edits to the manuscript • Then sends it to the copy editor who will • Fact check • Read for inconsistencies • Keep a style sheet • Edit according to the Chicago Manual of Style or house style guide (or both) • Copy editor and author send MS back and forth with approved or disapproved edits until the MS is (virtually) error-free • This is where the conflicts emerge…

  4. Presentation Outline • The conversation surrounding the idea of authorship • Research questions • Methods • Conflict categories • Author conflict example • How can this relationship be improved?

  5. A Few Views on Collaborative Writing • Traditional Views: • Lunsford and Ede: Modern authorship is a “cultural construct” (Singular Texts/Plural Authors, pg. 77) • Hierarchal perspective of collaboration (Singular Texts/Plural Authors, pg. 133) • George Herbert Mead’s Collaborative Perspective on Rhetorical Invention • However, several theorists believe: • Editors function as collaborators in the writing process of a text, as they contribute largely to the overall meaning (M. Thomas Inge) • Can also be viewed as co-authors

  6. Research Questions • 1. What are the most common conflicts occurring in the copy editing process? • 2. Which power plays or conflict strategies are being implemented within these interdependent interactions? • 3. Can collaboration theories be used to reduce or improve the frictions in these relationships?

  7. Why is this Important to English Studies? • Chances are good that each of you will collaborate with other writers to co-author a document • Conflicts are inevitable • You encounter the products of copy editing and co-authorship each and every day

  8. Publishing practicum course through MSUM Allows student copy editors to work with a small literary press called New Rivers Press. I am part of a book team that worked through the semester to copy edit a novel manuscript. Dr. Suzzanne Kelley approved my request to contact book team members and authors to use e-mail correspondence Obtained permission through the use of informed consent forms Several of these e-mails serve as examples of conflict interaction or successful collaboration in the copy editing process New Rivers Press and My Research Project

  9. Conflict Category Chart

  10. Inattention to the Copy Editor’s and Publishing House’s Wishes or Style Guides • BT: We only have a few questions for you, so rather than send you a manuscript back labeled with them, I'm just going to ask them here because they are rather small and few. • BT: This one does refer to the style overall. There are consistently double spaces after periods throughout the collection, is this deliberate? I do know this is how typing used to be taught (I even remember learning that,) so I wanted to know if it was deliberate, or just an accidental habit and we should fix it. • AU: Yes, in the olden-times we did put two spaces after periods, so that's the way all the poems are formatted.  I think the convention--going from one space after a period to two spaces after a period--is in flux right now, with some writers (probably older) using the two spaces and some writers (probably younger) using the one space.  So I think it's fine to keep it with two spaces.

  11. What’s going on here? • Book team knows that Chicago Manual of Style mandates one space between sentences • Author believes that she is entitled to keep two spaces because she is an “older writer.” • The two interdependent parties must go through differentiation stage to reach conflict resolution.

  12. How can the author/copy editor relationship improve? • Normative Model of Conflict Management • Differentiation • Preliminary understanding of others’ point of view • Acknowledge legitimacy of other’s issues/must work together • Motivation to work through conflicts • Integration • Search for common ground/improve understanding • Move toward possible solutions • Implement resolution

  13. How can the author/copy editor relationship improve? • Joanna Wolfe’s strategies • Clarifying roles and responsibilities up front in a task schedule • Including revision in the task schedule and allow for plenty of time to implement revisions • Laying some ground rules for conversation • Putting aside time for revision • Deciding in advance how impasses (stalemates) will be handled • Establishing team priorities

  14. Project Works Cited List • Folger, Joseph P., Marshall Scott Poole, and Randall K. Stutman. Working Through Conflict: Strategies for Relationships, Groups, and Organizations. 6th Ed. Boston: Pearson, 2009. Print. • Fontaine, Sheryl L. and Susan M. Hunter. Collaborative Writing in Composition Studies. Boston: Cengage, 2005. Print. • Inge, Thomas M. “Collaboration and Concepts of Authorship.” Modern Language Association. 116.3 (2001): 623-630. Print. 28 October 2013. • Jacques, Kelly Chrisman. From Conflict to Concord: Copyeditors, Composition, and Technology. Diss. University of Kansas, 2010. Lawrence, 2010. Print. • LeFevre, Karen Burke. Invention as a Social Act. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986. Print. • Lunsford, Andrea and Lisa Ede. Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. Print. • ----. “The Concept of Authorship.” Singular Texts/Plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative Writing. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. Print. • Saller, Carol Fisher. The Subversive Copy Editor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Nook file. • Wolfe, Joanna. Team Writing: A Guide to Working in Groups. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. Print.

  15. Works Cited for Images Included Red pen: http://elspethcooper.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/red_editing_pen.jpg Tracked Changes Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=track+changes&client New Rivers Press: https://twitter.com/NewRiversPress Team Writing: A Guide to Working in Groups: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Team+Writing+A+Guide+to+Working+in+Groups+by+Joanna+Wolfe+2009+Paperback&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

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