Advanced Proofreading
This course is for those who want to apply existing proofreading skills to texts that pose difficult problems. It teaches strategies for decision-making, carrying through the changes consistently, dealing with the author and finishing the text to an appropriate standard.
These skills are transferable to any and every publishing context.
At the end of the course, you will have learned:
- how to plan a book-length proofread and carry it out thoroughly
- how to decide what to change and what to leave
- what to look for when proofreading texts set from electronic files
- strategies for checking and cross-checking (as opposed to reading)
- dealing with the author at the proof stage.
Programme
- Reading proofs set from electronic files
- The proofreader’s responsibilities
- Planning the proofread
- Balancing the needs of the material with the budget and schedule
- Typical errors and how to deal with them
- Corruption of text
- Missing material
- Typography and layout
- Position of figures and directionals
- Running heads
- Editing on proof and its knock-on effects
- Fact-checking
- Improving poor grammar and writing
- Post-hoc standardisation of editorial style
- Collating the author’s corrections
- The index
- Checking and cross-checking
- Design consistency
- Contents vs chapter openings vs running heads
- List of figures vs captions on the page
- Cross-reference pointers vs targets
- Author–date references vs bibliographical list
- Number sequences
- Capitalisation of headings
- Line-end hyphenation.
Who will benefit from this course?
Editors, proofreaders and project managers who have some proofreading experience and who want to know how to maximise the benefits of the proof stages without compromising the budget and schedule.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
- Dates: 04 September 2012
- Duration: A one-day course
- Price: £385+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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