The following documents taught me the importance of connecting with the audience, working within your constraints, working collaboratively, working independently, and how vital attention to detail truly is. Both of these projects provided differing constraints, the fictitious Boeing Letter to Southwest Airlines had a one-page limit for a formal document, while the Journal Special Issue: Creativity had to have one piece written by each editor, a cover design, and an editorial introduction. These vastly different documents provided me with the knowledge of why the micro-level and macro-level edits such as the formatting of a table of contents to the design of a document are so important. By making these documents easier for the intended audience and fulfilling the constraints given by my professors, I learned how to put the audience first while also writing within the constraints given to me by someone in a managerial role. Working with those goals in mind I developed time management skills that allowed me to meet the deadlines provided to me.
Boeing Letter to Southwest Airlines (Fictitious)
The Boeing Letter to Southwest Airlines is a fictitious document that was written for ENC 6701 Professional Writing Studies. In this course, as a class, we studied civic discourse, ethics, and case studies. Leading up to this assignment I conducted a case study analysis on the Boeing Max 737 Disasters. After conducting the case study analysis, I was tasked with writing a letter from the company to another party about the issue. I decided to write this letter on behalf of Boeing to Southwest Airlines to try to mend fences and build some semblance of trust back. I enjoyed thinking through how to approach this situation and creating this document. Despite finding joy in making the document I am deeply saddened by the loss of 346 precious lives.
Journal Special Issue *All Rights Reserved*
This collection of documents details the technical writing and editing process of a collaborative journal group project for ENC 5930 Current Topics in Professional Writing: The Editor, The Writer, and The Editing: What 21st Century Editing Means. In this project I, along with Phillip Martin and Dlyann Croteu were tasked with conceptually developing, researching, drafting, and creating a fictitious journal issue for the Composition Studies journals if we were guest editors and writers. Below you will find the final draft, a version showcasing track changes and edits in progress, and a revision letter detailing my work on the Book Proposal portion of the journal. This was a semester-long project that took months to create. *All Rights Reserved*
Final Draft: Journal Special Issue: Creativity *All Rights Reserved*
The Journal Special Issue: Creativity Final document *All Rights Reserved* is the final polished piece that showcases the culmination of Dlyann Croteau, Phillip Martin, and my work over the summer semester. In this document, you will find a Journal Cover designed by Rachael Bell, an Editorial Introduction written by the group as a whole, a FEN Blog Post written by Dlyann Croteu, a Where We Are section written by Phillip Martin, and a Book Review section written by Rachael Bell. This document is thirty-six pages in total and focuses specifically on the topic of creativity in the field of Rhetoric and Composition.
Technical Edits: Edits, Comments, and Suggestions, Journal Special Issue: Creativity *All Rights Reserved*
*The PDF document does not show all the edits, but the Word Document does.*
Word Document with Track Changes:
The Bell Copy With Edits, Comments, and Suggestions, Journal Special Issue Creativity *All Rights Reserved* document showcases the editing and writing process in a collaborative setting. During this process, we conducted our own edits and responded to peer reviews done by Noor Ahmed, Dani Hendrix, Tricia Hall, and Sirena, whose suggestions are showcased in the document. We addressed the peer review suggestions and edits in the document as well as making our own. Major suggestions and edits I contributed to were the addition of the table of contents, reformatting headings and adjusting their sizes, reformatting the document so that each project started on its own page, and line editing. In the comments, you will find suggestions that we made and conversations with each other. This document is my favorite one out of this collection because it captures the work my teammates and I put into this piece along with our attention to detail.
Technical Writing: Revision Letter
The Revision Letter document explains to the head editor or in this case my professor what changes were made. There was a limited word count for this assignment, and because of this, I could not explain everything I contributed to the project. So, I decided to focus on the micro-level details that would not be seen easily in both versions of the journal in this collection. I also describe the changes I made to the Book Review and how I ensured we adhered to the guidelines and constraints required of the Composition Studies journal.