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E-mail: linda_adams@byu.edu

Linda Hunter Adams is the director of the College of Humanities Publications Center. She teaches editing for publication, using the books and journals in the center as real projects for her classes. She teaches her classes as a workshop. Books are taken from manuscript through source checking, copy editing, substantive editing, document design, typesetting, production, and proofreading to camera-ready copy. Approximately twenty campus student journals as well as faculty articles and books provide the material for the center. Mrs. Adams has been an editor with the church publications and for Peregrine Smith, a national trade book publisher. She has worked on projects with Deseret Book, Bookcraft, Aspen, and numerous university and commercial presses. She is editor of Encyclia (the journal for the Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters), managing editor for Literature and Belief, production editor for The Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, editor of the Benson Institute Review, and former associate editor of BYU Studies. Linda Hunter Adams has taken the Stanford Publishing Course. She received her B.A. and M.A. from Brigham Young University, minoring in journalism and majoring in English. Focusing on Victorian literature, she centered her work around Thomas Hardy.

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