Arnold Presentation

Dr. Arnold spoke in class about his experiences with teaching and finding copy problems. He talked about his help was not always appreciated like when he tried to tell this woman her signs were wrong. He said they should be the Smiths instead of the Smith's. He also told the story of how he had his class and everyone he knew harass Bennigans until they changed their open to close time to 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. I think his stories and his incite was very valuable because I got insight into what it is like to have fun with the language instead of just looking at it as a bunch of boring rules even though those rules are important and give you the means to have fun.

Dr. Arnold's words

In the article, he discussed how he was a true copy editor and how it affected every part of his life. It was something he was always doing in every situation whether it was on a menu at a restaurant or on yard sale signs, he was constantly editing copy. He also said he was an addict to doing so because it was something that he loved doing. It sometimes got him into trouble though because people did not want his help.

United Way River Cities

In class we were assigned the task of dividing into groups and make a team of editors. We were instructed to pick a team name and then start deciding who would be the chief editor. Our team name is the Muckrakers and our chief editor is Kayla. We started on our design of a logo after much deliberation. It started with the turkey hand idea but have since moved onto a box idea and one with the letters UWRC flowing together like a river. Then we tried to figure out an idea and theme for our series. We had talked about the theme of building a better community but it did not go very far. The other members of our team was Jonas, Meghann, and I. We started our writing our memo as a group before we left the class so that we could all start to contribute to it while our chief editor finished it.