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- My top five grammar grumbles
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These are my top five irritations when it comes to grammar.
- Top Tips for Selling Rights
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Lynette Owen, Copyright Director at Pearson Education Ltd, shares some top tips for selling rights.
- Can Permissions be Profitable?
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Permissions for Profit tutor Kevin Stewart discusses the role of the Permissions Administrator.
- Digital Publishing Law: Why Comply?
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An article from Al Taylor our Digital Publishing Law tutor about publishing law.
- Understanding the market research maze - where do I start?
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An article by one of our tutors Mary James, on market research in educational publishing.
Freelancing
- Successful Freelance Proofreading – Keeping Your Skills Current
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One of the most positive steps any proofreader can take on their journey as a successful freelancer is to ensure their skill sets are current.
- Seven tips for starting out as an editorial freelancer
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A student on The Publishing Training Centre's distance learning courses gives some tips for starting out as an editorial freelancer.
- Tips from a Publishing Insider: what a publisher looks for before hiring you as an editorial freelancer
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Insightful article about working as a freelance proofreader written by Mary James.
- The lure of the 8 second commute
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Tutor Mary James shares some of her extensive freelancing experience in this helpful article.
Careers
- Five reasons to take a publishing course
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Five reasons for publishers and those wishing to get into publishing to do vocational training.
- Getting into Publishing - The Guardian Live Q&A
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The Guardian careers section ran a live Q&A session to help those wanting to break into publishing.
- Nine Top Tips For Getting Into Publishing
- New Networking Group to help unemployed in publishing and bookselling
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A new networking group has been launched to help and support those who have lost jobs in the publishing and bookselling industry.
- Getting more from your job
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John Whitley, former Chief Executive of the Publishing Training Centre gives some words of advice on surviving the office.
- Do you need further training?
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Suzanne Collier from Bookcareers gives some advice on how to maximise your professional progress.
- Skills and the common man and woman
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John Whitley reflects on how publishing fits in to the government agenda for skills in the workplace.
Views from the PTC
- The technology of teaching
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Changing teaching styles - and do PowerPoint slides help or hinder?