Week 3: ENC 4212, Professional & Technical Editing

WORKING WITHQUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

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You will be sending the Week 3, 4, and 5 codes with Assignment 2 by September 28, 2015.Fall 2015 • USF Sarasota-Manatee • © 2015 by T. E. Roberts, Instructor

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• Longman Guide to Technical Editing, Chapter 11: Quantitative and Technical Material

• Empirical Mathematics: Numerical Data and Models by Prof. Roger Cooke

• How do “word persons” and “number persons” collaborate for successful results?

• Assignment 2: Editing Wikipedia

Week 3 Agenda

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Longman Guide, Chap 11:Quantitative and Technical Material

• Using numbers• Measurement• Marking mathematical material• Equations• Grammar and punctuation• Markup for typesetting• Statistics and tables• Standards and specifications

STUDY THIS CHAPTER CAREFULLY -- I WILL DISCUSS IT IN MORE DETAIL IN THE WEEK 4 LECTURE.

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Empirical Mathematics: Prof. Cooke

Here is link to free PDF download from course website:http://www.todroberts.com/USF/Empirical_Math.pdf

Preface iChapter 1. Numerical Data 3

1. Arithmetic skills 32. Tables 133. Bar charts 154. Line graphs 205. Pie charts 226. Chapter review exercises 25 <= DO THESE

Chapter 2. Statistics 291. Organizing numerical data 302. Mean, median, and standard deviation 333. Clustering and probability 384. Normal distributions 455. Hypothesis testing 516. Confidence intervals 667. Chapter review exercises 73

Chapter 3. Modeling 771. Scatter plots 802. Linear models 823. Quadratic models 874. Cubic models 895. Power models 916. Exponential models 947. Logistic models 988. Chapter review exercises 999. Appendix: A closer look at linear regression 102

Chapter 4. Algebra 1091. Order of operations and grouping symbols 1092. Removing parentheses without evaluating 1143. Substituting one expression in another 1164. Interpretation of expressions: variables and functions 1175. Signs and exponents 1216. Power functions and polynomials 1257. Exponential functions 1338. Logarithmic functions 1389. Trigonometry 14410. Chapter review exercises 156

Chapter 5. Applications 1591. Historical applications 1592. Solving applied problems 1823. Chapter review exercises 192 <= DO THESE

Chapter 6. A Glimpse of the Calculus 1951. Differential calculus: the derivative 1962. Integral calculus 2103. Differential equations 2174. Chapter review exercises 224

Appendix: Applied Problems andTI-86 Techniques 227

Index 241

Read entire book except appendix, but focus on Preface, Chapters 1 and 5, and end-of-chapter 1 + 5 exercises by Oct. 5, 2015 (exercises do not need to be submitted -- just complete them for your benefit).

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Word Persons & Number Persons

• Professional and technical editing is a demanding occupation in which word experts and number experts can and must work well together for successful results.

• In the pre-scientific era, a person was considered “educated” only if he or she could demonstrate verbal literacy ... “science” held very low status (perhaps still true today in the popular imagination when we hear derogatory words such as “nerd,” “egghead,” and “digital wonk”).

• The schism between literary/verbal and quantitative/mathematical thinking probably began with scientific exploration and progress in mathematical and quantitative analysis as early as the 16th century (see Swift’s satire in Gulliver’s Travels; the Royal Society was founded in England in 1660).

• This conflict and misunderstanding spilled over into culture, religion, commerce, and education (C.P. Snow, “The Two Cultures,” 1959; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures).

• To this day, some otherwise “educated” persons fear, distrust, and denigrate math-based learning or feel intellectually inferior to those who are gifted in math and science. By the same token, some people working in quantitative fields hold “word people” in contempt. Why?

• See this link for more info: http://www.todroberts.com/USF/Science_vs_Humanities.pdf

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Quotes About Science and MathSelected Quotes from the "MATHEMATICAL QUOTATION SERVER" at Furman University:http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mqs/mquot.shtml

• Adams, Douglas (1959-2001)Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years. -- Life, the Universe and Everything. New York: Harmony Books, 1982.

• Adams, John (1735-1826)I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. -- Letter to Abigail Adams, May 12, 1780.

• Bell, Eric Temple (1883-1960)If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols, it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye, it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics. -- In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956, p. 308.

• Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have. -- In N. Rose (ed.) Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC: Rome Press Inc., 1988.

• Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Reader's Digest. Oct. 1977.• Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- On Science.

• Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

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Assignment 2: Editing Wikipedia

• Your editorial challenges1. Read carefully all the links at the top of the Assignment 2 instructions (now posted on

course Welcome page and in FILES on Canvas).2. Find an article anywhere in Wikipedia on a controversial topic of interest and familiarity to

you.3. Edit all or a portion of that article for re-submitting to Wikipedia as an “improved” version.

• Purpose of this assignment• To understand the nature of Wikipedia as an influential and controversial source of facts,

opinions, and analysis in today’s culture• To learn the human dimension of editing words and ideas composed by others and yourself• To demonstrate skill and knowledge in communicating with a world-wide audience of

diverse Wikipedia users