Modern Religions and....ESL Textbooks
March 16, 2008
Finishing up Modern Religions For Dummies today. I did, indeed, have to deal with some interesting "political" issues with terms and cross-references. Like, after you cross-reference from God to Allah and Yahweh, do you also cross-reference to Jesus and the Holy Spirit? Well, that's hard to say. For Christians, the answer is yes, but for Jews and Muslims, no. Any way I do this, I'm bound to offend someone, I suppose. I'm thinking about just putting "Jesus as" under "God" and leaving the rest of the stuff about Jesus just under his name. The Holy Spirit I haven't decided on yet. It's been real interesting indexing this particular overview of the Abrahamic religions. The authors have a very engaging style and have brought out a number of fascinating facts about the development of each religion that I didn't know. And I'm rather well read on the subject. Anyone who'd like a good perspective on these religions should take a look.
Last week, I also got a new project, short deadline, to add the Teacher Edition material to the extant indexes of a set of textbooks on English as a Second Language (ESL) for what looks like late elementary or middle school kids. It is most unfortunate that the index for the student edition isn't really an index at all, but an artificial hierarchical list of terms with no detailed terms as main entries. Rather frustrating to just add "t" page numbers for all sorts of pedagogical headings buried under very general topics like "Literary Analysis, " "Language and Grammar," and "Vocabulary." But we provide what the client wants, and with the short deadline, we can do no more. I'll be glad when that project is out of here.
Later on this week, I get to tackle AutoCAD (CAD=computer-aided design) material. I've worked with this stuff before. It should go pretty fast once I get started.
Finishing up Modern Religions For Dummies today. I did, indeed, have to deal with some interesting "political" issues with terms and cross-references. Like, after you cross-reference from God to Allah and Yahweh, do you also cross-reference to Jesus and the Holy Spirit? Well, that's hard to say. For Christians, the answer is yes, but for Jews and Muslims, no. Any way I do this, I'm bound to offend someone, I suppose. I'm thinking about just putting "Jesus as" under "God" and leaving the rest of the stuff about Jesus just under his name. The Holy Spirit I haven't decided on yet. It's been real interesting indexing this particular overview of the Abrahamic religions. The authors have a very engaging style and have brought out a number of fascinating facts about the development of each religion that I didn't know. And I'm rather well read on the subject. Anyone who'd like a good perspective on these religions should take a look.
Last week, I also got a new project, short deadline, to add the Teacher Edition material to the extant indexes of a set of textbooks on English as a Second Language (ESL) for what looks like late elementary or middle school kids. It is most unfortunate that the index for the student edition isn't really an index at all, but an artificial hierarchical list of terms with no detailed terms as main entries. Rather frustrating to just add "t" page numbers for all sorts of pedagogical headings buried under very general topics like "Literary Analysis, " "Language and Grammar," and "Vocabulary." But we provide what the client wants, and with the short deadline, we can do no more. I'll be glad when that project is out of here.
Later on this week, I get to tackle AutoCAD (CAD=computer-aided design) material. I've worked with this stuff before. It should go pretty fast once I get started.
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