Editing Scientific, Technical and Medical Texts

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Editing Scientific, Technical and Medical Texts


Dates:

2-3 June/21-22 October 2008 (a two-day course)

 

Price:

£689+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

 

"Excellent! Well paced course. Very enjoyable."

ECB delegate



Don't be alarmed by complicated manuscripts. After 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.

 

If you edit academic or technical books or journals, but aren't always sure how to deal with tables, formulae, equations, appendices and references, this course will make life much easier for you, and for the designers, typesetters and artists you work with.

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

 

Online training
This course includes online training and support.


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: 2-3 June/21-22 October 2008

Price: £689+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:
Editing Scientific, Technical and Medical Texts
Course price:
£689 +VAT
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2-3 June 2008,21-22 October 2008