This week, the meeting with Dr. Farless was rescheduled to Friday. This was welcome because it gave me more time to work on my edits for the 2020 journal edits that Dr. Farless asked Trish and me to review.
Within this 2020 paper, I had a few questions about typos versus intentional citation punctuation. Specifically, the use of semicolons versus periods. I had never seen this before, but the author had used them pretty consistently, so I was questioning if I was remembering something incorrectly. However, Dr. Farless said this was incorrect.
Another common mistake in this paper was the repetition of a full-length citation whenever a new section was cited. Specifically, letters from a specific year. These appeared to be from the same book, and I wondered if the shortened citation with the section title would be more appropriate. Dr. Farless did not know the answer to this question, and she is going to reach out to the writer soon for clarification.
Like the last time I reviewed a paper from 2020, I enjoyed seeing the previous editor's edits, and appreciated learning from what they noticed. For example, I did not notice that the writer had neglected to cite a few quotations in their paper. This makes me more aware as an editor and as a writer because if I do not see it in another person's work, I likely will not see it in my own.
To finish up this week's meeting, we reviewed the George III paper we started on last week. We had an enlightening discussion on the place of historiographical essays in history classes and in scholarship because of this essay. Mostly, this paper was very good! There were a few citation errors, but the only large edit we had was the lack of the author's voice in some paragraphs. There was a bit of excessive citation within the essay, which meant their thoughts got lost. This did not make this a poor paper, however, and we generally agreed there was not much to edit otherwise.
Dr. Farless also answered our previous questions. The use of photos is not approved in the Florida Conference of Historians due to copyright issues, however, the use of Ibid. in citations is. This will be very useful information as we continue to edit the final few papers of this semester.
We also had some sad news about meeting with the authors over zoom to discuss edits. Unfortunately, we have not received a reply about meeting to edit the paper. This likely means we will not have time. I really would have liked to meet with the author, but I understand that this is just how things are sometimes.
Next week is Thanksgiving, and we will not meet. Dr. Farless did give us 4 papers to edit in the 2 weeks we have until we meet again though. This is a large task, but I am excited to see how I do.
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