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Advanced Copy-Editing

Dates:

A one-day course

20 March 2012
10 July 2012
22 November 2012

Price:

£385+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre,

Book House, Wandsworth, London
(see a map and a list of local hotels)

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

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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 also involves looking at the proofs of the material to see how the resolution of copy-editing difficulties has worked in practice.

The course will cover:

an in-depth exploration of the issues that arise when working on a multi-author reference works
an examination of complex texts with the aim of helping you to see how to use existing skills and knowledge to tackle difficult pieces with confidence
the script of a textbook being prepared for a second edition, discussing the requirements of the job
rewriting texts to avoid problems.

Programme

Multi-author works
- Different editorial styles
- Different approaches to presentation
- Making biographical 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.

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.

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 also assesses applicants for Wiley-Blackwell’s copy-editing and project management teams, creating and setting the tests, marking them and giving feedback, then mentoring new project managers. She is a founder member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), for whom she organises training courses in the Bristol area. She is also 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: 20 March 2012, 10 July 2012, 22 November 2012
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £385+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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