During Year 3, Months 2-5, Revising Authors implement the action plan. By the end of your work on the project, you will hand in:

• Revised chapter docs
• {Course #} Front and Back Matter
• Revised {Course #} Key Terms
• Revised {Course #} H5P Questions

The sections that follow provide guidance on how to meet the expectations for each of these deliverables. We do not cover specific skills and strategies to meet this project’s criteria for success: learner focus, representation of diverse voices, accessibility, and Oregon context. If you are just joining the project, or if you need a refresher, please look at the Revising Author Toolbox, below, to find guidance on topics that will be important in your current role as Revising Author.

Revised Chapter Docs

The chapters you’ll hand in at the end of the Implementation Phase reflect the Revising Author role’s three priorities:

1. Use feedback gathered in Year 2 to advance the vision expressed in the {Course #} About This Book document.
2. Ensure overall consistency and coherence of the manuscript as a whole, within and between chapters.
3. Maintain alignment, including between curriculum learning outcomes, chapter learning objectives, key terms, H5P, attribution statements, etc.

When you created an action plan with the Project Manager and your Developmental Editor, you decided which changes needed to be made in order to respond to reviewer feedback and enable the manuscript to succeed on its own terms, as described in the {Course #} About This Book document. The Open Curriculum Development Project offers a support team who will help you bring out the best possible version of the textbook in the time you have.

The second key piece of the Revising Author’s role is to create a consistent experience for the reader, even though multiple authors contributed to the textbook. You are one of the last people to read the entire manuscript all the way through. Make adjustments so that the chapters come together as a whole.

Last, and most challenging, keep in mind that the original author team worked hard to align all the chapter elements both within and between chapters. Proceed with caution when you make changes! For example, if you revise a chapter learning objective, you will need to comb through the entire chapter to make sure that you catch all the places that supported the previous objective and update all those places. You might need to make updates to the wording of sentences, re-focus some sections, adjust figure captions, review the key terms list, and check the H5P questions.

We don’t mean to make your work sound overly difficult – the Revising Author’s role is to revise, after all. Rather, we want to emphasize that your role takes careful attention in order to honor and build on the good work that has come before.

{Course #} Front and Back Matter

The original author team provided the document titled {Course #} Prelaunch Front and Back Matter. This document contains the book sections for students and future instructors that appear before and after the body of Year 2 version of the book. Use this draft to populate the {Course #} Front and Back Matter document. We recommend working on this document towards the end of your Implementation Phase.

Many sections can be copied over from the prelaunch version as a starting point. Make revisions that reflect the final version of the textbook as it will be released.

In some cases, you may decide to keep an original section and write an additional piece for the same section. For example, if the original author team wrote a very personal letter to students or instructors, and you have a significantly different message to deliver, add a new header and write your own message either before or after the original one. Likewise, depending on how the original author team structured their acknowledgements, you can add yours to the same section or under a new header.

As with the chapter docs you’re revising, you will be one of the last people to review the front and back matter sections to make sure that they reflect the final, launch version of the textbook we’ll publish.

Revised {Course #} Key Terms

This is a spreadsheet of glossary terms and definitions that align with the learning objectives for each chapter. Please review the sheet carefully and use control-F to cross check:

• Key terms are listed alphabetically, with their definitions, as a chapter opener.
• Key terms are formatted in bold and defined within the sentence where they first appear in the chapter body.
• If a key term has an attribution statement or citation in the chapter where it appeared, that information is included in the spreadsheet.
• If a key term no longer appears in the chapter, delete it from the spreadsheet.

If you make changes to key terms, please keep the spreadsheet up to date.

Revised {Course #} H5P Questions

During Year 2, author teams worked on their H5P questions. We expect that this document will be in good shape in terms of effectiveness for student learning.

However, you may need to make revisions if H5P questions assess parts of the chapter that you have revised. Please pay careful attention so that students are not confused by misaligned questions.

Resolve Copy Edits

After you hand in your revised documents, the Copy Editor spends one month with the manuscript for overall readability. Many of their edits will be invisible to you. This means that if they find minor errors such as missing punctuation, typos, etc., they will simply make corrections without asking permission.

They will use suggestion mode and comments to make visible edits, where the Revising Author needs to weigh in before a change is made. Your very last task as Revising Author is to spend one more month responding to these edits. At the end of the month, all of the documents will be cleaned up with no remaining suggestions or comments. Here are three pointers for this phase of revision:

1. No more new content. The project doesn’t have time or capacity to support development of additional material at this stage of the project.
2. Accept or reject all in-line edits. Remember, minor fixes were already taken care of – these edits need your attention.
3. Take action on all comments. Consult with your Project Manager if you decide not to respond to the Copy Editor’s recommendations.

At this point the Revising Author has completed their work and the manuscript is ready to move into our production phase for launch.

Licenses and Attributions for Implementation Phase

Open content, original

“Implementation Phase” by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.