The Employee by joshua schwebel
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Re: Copyedit of Essays so far

Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ > To: Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > Cc: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Hi Jessica,

MLB sends her thanks for your copy edit of her text. That one is all finished now!

I’m attaching Josh’s response to your edits here. There is a Word file, but also the Pages file as that is the program he worked in a wanted to make sure everything tracked between.

Thanks and best,
Lauren

Attachments:

  • file 3. Schwebel JA Edit_JSReview.docx
  • file 3. Schwebel JA Edit_JSReview.pages

Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > To: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ > Cc: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com>

Hi Lauren and Josh,

Great! Glad to hear that.

I’ve attached Josh’s text here with a few final comments to review. I’ve accepted the rest of the changes. Let me know if you have questions - otherwise you can either respond to those comments and return it and I can clean it up and send it back, or, if you’re okay with the changes I’ve made, you can accept them and that will be your final copy. 

(Also, I checked the Word doc against the Pages doc, and all save for one comment seems to have converted properly - the comment re: the URL for one source that you have screenshots for didn’t convert for some reason, but at any rate that footnote will be left as is!) 

Best,
Jessica

Attachments:

  • file 3. Schwebel JA Edit March 28.docx

Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

hi Jessica,
thank you so much. I have accepted your changes, but have found one further nit-picky detail that I wanted to check with you. It's in the comments on the version attached.
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Attachments:

  • file 3. Schwebel JS March 28.docx

Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

Hi Josh,

No problem - I love nit-picky details. I just can’t see any new comments on that version. Can you share the page/sentence in an email?

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Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

Hi Jessica,
I am glad that this is a welcome level of engagement!
The question I added was to footnote 44.
Does it show up in the attached document?
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Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

It doesn’t show up in the document. Is it the use of “me” instead of “myself”? I made that change because that sentence uses a preposition (“with”) and the pronouns that come after it should be object pronouns (me, him, her, them, etc). 

If I’m missing something else let me know!
J
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Jessica Antony (she/her)
Writing | Editing | Publishing | Communicating

Please note that my email response time is, on average, 48 hours.


Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

Hi Jessica,
That’s so weird that it’s not showing up!
So my comment / question was to ask why it says in footnote 5, Carlesimo, CZVS and I, while in this later note it says and me?
But maybe you answered this, because the preposition in note 5 is between, and not with.
Is that why?
Thank you for your patience, and sorry for the invisible comment.
Did the other comments and responses come through okay?

Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

Very weird that Pages and Word don’t seem to talk to one another effectively. It looks like the rest of the comments have shown up, though.

As for this question, I mistakenly treated “between” as a conjunction, so for accuracy/consistency: 

Footnote 5 should read: "These quoted excerpts are transcribed from a recorded debriefing conversation between Carlesimo, the employee, Camille-Zoé Valcourt-Synnott, and me that took place on January 13, 2022 (a second part of this conversation took place on April 13, 2022).”

Footnote 7 should read: "Quoted from a conversation with Carlesimo, Valcourt-Synnott, and me, January 13, 2022.”

I’ve made a few more changes after a closer look at footnotes 43 & 48. Initially I used the shortened version of the initial citation (as per Chicago), but perhaps in this case, given that there are only a handful of these citations of the conversations on Jan 13 and April 13, straightforward consistency makes more sense. So, instead of the shortened version, they all read: "Quoted from a conversation with Carlesimo, Valcourt-Synnott, and me, January 13, 2022.” We can go either way on this - your choice.

And a final nit-picky item that I was thinking about while I was brushing my teeth this morning: on page 15 with the quote that inaccurately reads “do not” (where we’ve inserted [sic]), a clearer solution to that problem could be to remove “do not” and replace it with an ellipsis. Then the sentence just reads as it should and we aren’t asking the reader to do a bunch of work to correctly understand the meaning. (I realize “a bunch of work” is probably an overstatement, but making the read as easy as possible is always helpful, in my opinion.)

I’ve attached the version you sent with these suggested changes so you can see what they look like.

Let me know what you think!

Best,
Jessica

Attachments:

  • file 3. Schwebel March 29.docx

Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> To: Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

dear Jessica,
thank you so much, especially for thinking about this while brushing your teeth (I can relate – these are the moments when I think most clearly). I totally agree with you on making the quotation as clear as possible. There is no need to add the [sic] when an ellipsis is much smoother.
Thank you also for ironing out the footnotes so that they are all consistent.
Everything looks tip-top now, and I have no further issues.
I am attaching the latest version in both formats, hopefully things transfer from pages to word...
Lauren and I will be in touch soon-ish with the remaining texts,
warm thanks,
Josh

Attachments:

  • file 3. Schwebel March 29JS.docx
  • file 3. Schwebel March 29JS.pages

Jessica Antony <███████████████████████ > To: Josh Schwebel <privatejosh@gmail.com> Cc: Lauren Wetmore <████████████████████████████████ >

You got it!

I’ve attached a clean version here. I believe everything from Pages has transferred/been addressed.

I’ll keep my eye out for the rest of the texts. 

Have a great weekend!
Jessica

Attachments:

  • file 3. Schwebel FINAL.docx