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Rewriting and Substantive Editing

Dates:

A one-day course

26 June 2012
14 September 2012

Price:

£385+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre,

All courses are scheduled to run from 9.30am to 5.00pm at Book House in Wandsworth, Southwest London
(see a map and a list of local hotels)

Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability

"There was just the right amount of theory and practice to make it interesting and interactive."
Discovery London delegate

"Teaching style was very informative and relaxed and the opportunity to discuss topics with industry colleagues was very helpful."
CUP delegate

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This is a practical course that will help you assess and improve texts efficiently and effectively. Combining practical exercises with group discussion, it will give you new skills and techniques that you can go on to apply to future problems.

The course will boost your confidence by showing you:

why a piece of writing doesn't work
strategies for improving pieces of writing
how to adjust the level and tone of a piece of writing
techniques you can apply to any text to enhance its accessibility and sense.

You will work on your own, in pairs and in a group to analyse the stylistic problems of different types of text, look at a range of solutions and adjust the presentation and construction to guarantee effective communication.

Programme

Identifying problems and considering solutions
Assessing message and medium, audience
Rewriting text
- To change the level
- To clarify the message
Analysing style
- To add copy
Maintaining the author's voice
Reducing the text
- Without simplifying
- In order to simplify
Editing text written in English as a second language
Sentence construction
Presentation
Specialist vocabulary
Editing your own work
Checklist - problems and solutions.

Who will benefit from this course?

Editorial staff and freelancers who need to rewrite text presented to them.

Your Tutor

After a spell in teaching and education research, Andrew Steeds worked as a publisher in three of the major UK educational publishing companies before going freelance in 1992. He now runs Simply Put, a company that offers writing, project management and consultancy to organisations that want to communicate more effectively with the full range of their readers.

This course was previously called Rewriting Workshop.

Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.

Dates: 26 June 2012, 14 September 2012
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £385+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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