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Advanced Copy-Editing

Dates:

A one-day course

17 September 2015

Venue:

Crowne House, Southwark Street, London SE1

Courses will start at 9.30am

Access to the venue is from 9.00am

Price:

£425+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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Margaret Aherne talks about ‘Advanced Copy-Editing’

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

demonstrate a clear understanding of the issues that arise when working on multi-author reference works
identify the existing skills and knowledge that you can use to tackle complex texts with confidence
rewrite texts to avoid problems.

This course contributes to PUB 14 and PUB 19 of the Book & Journal Publishing National Occupational Standards.

Who will benefit from this course?

Experienced editors, or those who have already attended The Publishing Training Centre’s Copy-Editing Skills course and subsequently gained experience.

Programme

Session 1
- Discussion: briefing
- Multi-author works
Session 2
- Discussion: multi-author works
- Complexity 1: creating a table
- Complexity 2: linguistics
Session 3
- Complexity 3: assigning structure
- Working on second editions
- What’s the problem?
Session 4
- Working with non-native English
- Rewriting workshop
- Final discussion/queries.

Your Tutor

Margaret Aherne has worked in publishing since 1986 as a proofreader, copy-editor, project manager and tutor/mentor for a number of clients, including Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Routledge and the Audit Commission. She is a tutor on The Publishing Training Centre’s Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning course and is the junior co-author, with Gillian Clarke, of the latest edition. She is a founder member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) and a mentor in proofreading and copy-editing on the SfEP’s mentoring scheme.

Note that most of our short courses can also be run as In-Company events.

Dates: 17 September 2015
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £425+VAT
A number of discounts are available
Tags: Editing, Short Courses

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