Editing Scientific, Technical and Medical Texts
If you edit academic or technical books or journals, but aren't always sure how to deal with features such as tables, formulae, equations, appendices and references, this course will make the process much easier for you, and for the designers, typesetters and artists you work with.
At the end of this two-day course you will understand:
- how to edit and mark up technical text correctly
- how to give clear instructions to typesetters, artists and designers
- the impact of DTP and using authors' files
- how to handle tables and illustrations, including graphs.
Programme
- The editor's role
- The point of editing
- Levels of edit
- Good working practice
- The language of science
- Special notations (quantities, units and symbols, statistics, abbreviations)
- Significance of italic, bold, indices, spaces, dashes and capitals
- Structure and mark-up
- Headings
- Tables
- Illustrations
- References and bibliographies, including e-references
- Other text elements
- Language and style
- Scientific modes of expression
- The problem of jargon
- House style
- Reference materials
- As part of brief
- Conflicting authorities
- Online resources
- The future
- Resources
- Reference works and further reading
- Online resources.
Who will benefit from this course?
Anyone who is involved with the development of scientific, technical and medical texts, including editorial assistants, copy-editors, desk editors, proofreaders, development editors, commissioning editors and freelancers.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
- Dates: 21 June 2012, 26 November 2012
- Duration: A two-day course
- Price: £755+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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