DEI vs. antiracism
Replace Global North/South with low, lower-middle, upper-middle and high income countries.
Consistency in how we refer to names of people
Duplicated references—consolidate
There’s a lot of heavy copy editing that needs to happen throughout. I don’t know if readers are supposed to conform to a house style or if that’s happening later, but someone will need to go through the whole thing can standardize things like how quotes are style (e.g., are quotes italicized or in roman? do headings use headline capitalization or sentence capitalization? etc.).
Header formatting
Plaigiarism checklist—ithenticate $300
How to create an antiracist corporate culture—SHRM
Heavy text reuse: where we’re taking chunks of texts, refer back to original to make sure we are quoting where appropriate—THI S IS CRITICAL
Hyperlinks where citations appear—remove?
British spellings to U.S. spellings
We need to write a conclusion
Organizational relevance section—do we want to include the financial benefit to orgs?
We need something on paid internships
To Do
Add CC-BY license info
Damita contacting Erin Landis about illustrations
Illustrations to be received NLT June 15
Damita contacting Melanie about ithenticate
Melanie’s response: Crossref is going to let us use their account. Just send the file to Ed Pentz [email protected] when you are ready and he’ll upload it and send you the report. When the file is ready, I’ll send it over to Ed. (DS)
Jocelyn emailing group about copy editor, permissions, do not edit, etc.
Damita to set up call with David, Bill, Laura, Gabe, Dawit, Jocelyn, Brenna
Jocelyn and Damita to review comments in draft document
Quote requested from Melanie on paid vs unpaid internships
May 29: Reader Draft run through free plagiarism checker (duplichecker.com); it’s in very good shape (one flag higher than 10% which is a best practice); flag noted in document
RESOURCES document being updated: Dawit, Damita and KFG Intern (name?), possible GWU students