Summary:
Victory completed a major revision for the 10th edition. Victory editors and freelancer writers researched new careers and career clusters using government databases. Victory's revisions included:
- Researching, writing, editing, and copyediting 336 new career profiles. Only some of these were new (emerging) careers, but all manuscript was new to give the revised edition a fresh look
- Pouring content into SGML templates. Editors made revisions in the SGML files, and Production validated the files
- Researching, writing, editing, and copyediting 16 Career Cluster Overviews. One of these was for Business Management Administration; another was for Arts, Audio/Video Technology, and Communications
- Conducting 34 new interviews with people in selected professions, which were used to write and edit sidebar features
See this overview of the encyclopedia.
Facts:
- Developed Microsoft Word forms to export efficiently to SGML templates
- Wrote and edited manuscript for 336 careers
- Developed 16 Career Cluster Overviews; each was approximately 7,500 words
Tools:
- Microsoft Office
- SGML/XML editing software
- SGML/XML validation software