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Advanced Copy-Editing

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A one-day course

Start date:

24 September 2013

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All courses are scheduled to run from 9.30am to 5.00pm at Book House in Wandsworth, Southwest London
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Price:

£385+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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Copy-Editing

Margaret Aherne talks about Advanced Copy-Editing

This course is designed for editors who have some experience and who wish to extend their skills and knowledge. It tackles a range of complex material that presents challenges in comprehension, structure and consistency. The course is exercise-based so that you learn through practice as well as discussion.

One exercise involves looking at the proofs of the material to see how the resolution of copy-editing difficulties has worked in practice and another involves discussing the requirements of the job for a textbook that is being prepared for a second edition.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you should be able to:

demonstrate a clear understanding of the issues that arise when working on multi-author reference works
identify the existing skills and knowledge that you can use to tackle complex texts with confidence
rewrite texts to avoid problems.

Who will benefit from this course?

Experienced editors and those who have already attended The Publishing Training Centre’s Copy-Editing Skills training course, or a similar programme.

Programme

Multi-author works
- Different editorial styles
- Different approaches to presentation
- Making bibliographical information uniform
Complexity
- Ensuring clarity of presentation
- Creating a table
- Linguistics
- Assigning structure
Working on second editions
- Technical and procedural requirements of the job
- Exercise: did the copy-editing mark-up create or resolve problems for the typesetter?
What’s the problem?
Working with non-native English
- Delegates are invited to bring along their own examples for discussion
How should they have said it? Rewriting workshop
- Common grammatical errors
- Ways to clarify ambiguity
- Avoiding unwelcome nuance, innuendo, anachronism, parochialism, sexism and other unacceptable usages – and howlers!
Questions and discussion.

Your Tutor

Margaret Aherne has worked in publishing since 1986 as a proofreader, copy-editor, project manager and tutor/mentor for a number of clients, including Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Routledge and the Audit Commission. She is a tutor on The Publishing Training Centre’s Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning course and is the junior co-author, with Gillian Clarke, of the latest edition. She is a founder member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) and a mentor in proofreading and copy-editing on the SfEP’s mentoring scheme.

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

Dates: 24 September 2013
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £385+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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