Benjamin Fong: Seattle-based Teaching Professor and Honors Faculty Fellow, Arizona State University, discusses the role of a professional editor in amplifying and clarifying the message of others, especially at a time when public and political discourse seems to value bad-faith interpretations of others’ communication. Fong discusses this in the context of his work curating a set of historical articles and contemporary commentary by and about Bayard Ruston, a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement.
Editing a Book – Civic Skills
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- What book did Fong write and edit?
- What is the civic good that editing can offer?
- How does Fong think that editing and its civic skills can help the United States today?
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