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Basic Proofreading - full programme

 

  • Introduction
    • The publishing process and the proofreader’s place in it
    • Differences between proofreading and copy-editing
    • Methods of proofreading
    • The British Standards Institution proof-correcting symbols
    • Which colours to use for which errors
  • Unit 1
    • The job – understanding the publisher’s brief
    • Rekeyed or set from electronic file?
    • Insert or substitute
    • Making the wrong mark: stet
    • Errors that are easy to miss
    • Superscript and subscript
    • Marking up punctuation
    • Spacing – between words and between lines
    • Delete, transpose, take over and take back
  • Unit 2
    • Coding headings and other text
    • Design specification
    • Detailed mark-up of copy
    • Type faces, points and picas
    • Hyphens and em and en rules/spaces
    • Fixed, thin and hair spacing
    • Non-standard characters
    • Numbers
    • Bold, italic and underline
    • Capitals, small capitals and lower case
    • Footnotes
  • Unit 3
    • Ligatures
    • Accents and non-standard letters
    • Wrong font
    • New paragraph, new line and run on
    • The helpful typesetter
    • Proofreading blind
    • Move left, move right, centre, raise or lower
    • Types of proof: galley and page
    • References and bibliographies
  • Unit 4
    • Straight to page
    • Saving space or making a line at page proof
    • Page numbers and running headlines
    • Promotional material
    • ISBNs and ISSNs
  • Unit 5
    • Using authors’ electronic files
    • Scanning and electronic mark-up
    • Illustrations and tables
    • Author’s corrections
    • Keeping a duplicate marked proof
    • Passing the page proofs for press
    • Indexes
    • After page proofs
  • Conclusion
    • Your next steps
    • Getting work as a freelance


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