Managing Editorial Freelances

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Managing Editorial Freelances


Dates:

10 June/8 October 2008 (a one-day course)

 

Price:

£349+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

 

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)


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

 

"I thought the course was extremely useful; I’d recommend all editors to go on it."

Sage Publications delegate



Are you using your editorial freelances effectively? On this course, you'll learn how to:

 

  • source the most appropriate freelances
  • give accurate briefings
  • gain a tighter grip on costs, timing and schedule management
  • maintain quality standards and motivate your freelances
  • understand the legal issues.

 

This course has helped many editors to examine and improve their management of editorial freelances. Now you can benefit too. Giving you a more rounded view of employing freelances, the course will help you to ensure that the advantages of reducing editorial overheads aren't being undermined by insufficient planning, briefing or quality control.

Programme

  • Why and how publishers use freelances
  • Selecting freelances
  • Briefing
  • Cost, quality and time control
  • Feedback and motivation
  • Legal issues

 

Who will benefit from this course?
Managing Editors, Project Editors, Desk Editors and Editorial Co-ordinators.


Your tutor
Anne Waddingham trades as WordMedic (‘Making words better’) and has worked in STM publishing for over 30 years. She specialises in tutoring, on-screen editing and project management. She authored the on-screen editing chapter in the fourth edition of Butcher’s Copyediting (CUP, 2006) and contributed to New Hart’s Rules (OUP, 2005).


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Dates: 10 June/8 October 2008

Price: £349+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels).

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Course title:
Managing Editorial Freelances
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£349 +VAT
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10 June 2008,8 October 2008