Mrs. Hensley & Mrs. WelkerSenior Executive Editors

Welcome to Wolf Publications

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing text used to convey

information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete work.

The editing process often begins with the author's idea for the work itself, continuing as a collaboration between the author and the editors as the work is created. As such, editing is a practice that includes creative skills, human relations, and a precise set of methods.

What do editors do?

This season, approximately 90 business-savvy contestants will compete, not only for a job with the Wolf PublicationsOrganization, but for the prize of publishing a collection

of nonfiction texts to represent our world-famous

publications: “Wolves in the Know” “The Tech-Savvy Wolf”“The Scientific Wolverine”

The last team standing will be "hired" as the Wolf Publication’s Apprentices and have the honor of

attending a lunch with the bosses and fellow team winners.

The Situation

Purpose and PerformanceYour job is to compile the

most appealing collection of magazine articles possible that cover a variety of topics and text structures.

The final task will end in the Board Room, where contestants must account for their actions and be judged by Mrs. Hensley, Mrs. Welker, fellow contestants, and expert guest advisors.

Performance Everyday, the teams of

contestants will work together, each under the guidance of a designated managing editor, to compete in editorial-driven tasks, using their knowledge, along with their proven ability to examine and evaluate text, to win the challenge.

Contestants are subjected to long hours, grueling deadlines, intellectual challenges, personality differences and intense scrutiny under the careful watch of Mrs. Hensley and Mrs. Welker.

Challenges encourage contestants to read and find authentic, reliable texts that will appeal to their target audience, your peers. Contestants must reach out to their network for assistance and feedback.

ProcessEditing teams will

receive articles submitted by various authors. It will be your team’s task to determine if the article should be accepted and published in our magazine.

Each magazine must have all 5 text structures represented in their final magazine. DescriptionSequenceCompare/

ContrastCause/EffectProblem/Solution

Tools for SuccessMailbox Every team will have a mailbox. Your Chief Editor

will send all correspondence, including prepareds, through your mailbox. It is important to check your mailbox each day.

Think Board This board will be utilized to display your various

magazine articles and your teams’ thinking process in progress. This is a communication tool to display your hard work for the Senior Chief Editor.

Resource Handbook Your Chief Editor will be giving each contestant

resources to use to help you determine if an article meets our criteria of acceptance. All resource items will be kept in your communication arts notebook/binder behind the power time tab.

Jobs within the TeamSenior Executive Editors •Responsible for developing

a product to its final release

•Provide guidelines for decision-making

•Evaluate employee performance

•Issue vacation days and job targets

•Oversee company operations

Managing Editor •Responsible for overseeing

the team progress•Manage the Think Boards•Ensure deadlines are met•Provide support to team

members to ensure all team members are contributing to the team

•Communicate to Senior Execs about job issues

Acquisitions Editors•Find marketable ideas•Obtain manuscripts from

authors via Senior Executives and independent research

•Evaluate articles through the prescribed process

•Make recommendations to the team to determine viability of the article

First Steps of the Task :As a team, you will be preliminary deciding if your division will reject or POSSIBLY accept the articleOnce you receive an

author’s submission to appear in your magazine, you must determine if the article will work for the magazine.

Working together, follow the 4 outlined steps and complete form R3Ce Accuracy of Information

Preview the Text

•Examine the Text Features•Make Connections•Make Predictions

Read the Article •Annotate Key Information

•Annotate the Signal Words

Determine the Text Structure

•Description•Sequential•Compare/Contrast•Cause/Effect•Problem/Solution

Determine

Accuracy•R –read (URL)•E—examine•A – author•L--links

Second Steps of the Task :As a team, decide if you will reject or POSSIBLY accept this article for your magazine.

If article not is reliable, then… Complete form R3Ce Accuracy

of Information explaining your decision to reject the article.

Our administrative assistants will write a letter of rejection notifying the author of your decision.

Move onto to your next project

If article is reliable, then… Complete form R3Ce

Accuracy of Information explaining your decision to possibly accept the article.

Move onto the next steps which will require your team to evenly distribute the “Forms of Analysis” to determine if your team will accept or reject the article

The Third Steps of the Task Your team will now complete the individual analysis forms to determine if this is the best article for your magazine. Each team member must complete at least one form for each article. Team members must complete a different form for each article.

Graphically Organize Choose the best graphic

organizer to match the article’s text structure AND paraphrase the main ideas and supporting details of the text. This will help you remember specific information which will help guide your teams’ decision whether it should make the final cut.

Forms R3Cf, R3Ca, R3Cg ,R3Cj, R3Ck

Summarize Provide a summary of the

article so the senior executive editor can quickly understand the article.

Forms R3Cf, R3Ca, R3Cg ,R3Cj, R3Ck

Author’s Viepoint: What is the author’s viewpoint? Is

there a slant to the article? Are there 2 sides presented?

Form R3Ci

Effectiveness of the Solution Identify the overall problem and

evaluate the solution or possible solutions presented by the author.

Form R3Ck

Graphic Organiz

er

Analysis of

Author’s Viewpoi

nt

Evaluation of Solution

Summary

Accept or Reject? Once all five forms are

complete, determine as a team if your team will accept OR reject the article.1. Accuracy of Information

Form R3Ce2. Graphic Organizer

Forms R3Cf, R3Ca, R3Cg ,R3Cj, R3Ck 3. Summarize using nonfiction

text structure Forms R3Cf, R3Ca, R3Cg ,R3Cj, R3Ck

4. Author’s View Point Form R3Ci

5. Problem Solving Process & Effectiveness of its Solution

Form R3Ck

The author of your article will be notified that his or her article will be appearing in your magazine OR will receive a letter of rejection if the articles not accepted.

Vacation Days and Job Targets

Vacation DaysMeeting deadlinesIdeas thoroughly

shownProducing quality

work

Job Targets Missing deadlines Failing to contribute or

cooperate with your team Being unprepared Tardiness Excessive absenteeism Off task behavior

Earn a trip to Candy Land Snack O-Rama Freeport

Your First TaskCreate your team

nameIt should be

connected to the type of magazine you’re producing.

Design your mailboxIt must include your

team name and each member’s name.

All text must be legible and easy to read from a distance.

Prepare your think board

Description

Sequence

Compare/Contrast

Cause/Effect

Problem/Solution

ThThe Sophisticates

1/2

Name

Block

Text Structur

es