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Rewriting and Substantive Editing

Dates:

A one-day course

01 June 2015
19 October 2015
25 November 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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Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability.

‘There was just the right amount of theory and practice to make it interesting and interactive.’
Discovery London delegate

‘Teaching style was very informative and relaxed and the opportunity to discuss topics with industry colleagues was very helpful.’
Cambridge University Press delegate

Recent delegates have also reported these immediate benefits:

‘More confidence in my ability to know where to start with a poorly written article’

‘Confidence when making changes/cuts and explaining decisions to authors. Improved ability to recognise and fix weak sentences’

‘More confidence. Sharing ideas and experience with course participants’

‘I am not alone in facing certain problems!’

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Speaking from Experience: Andrew Steeds

This is a practical course that will help you assess and improve texts efficiently and effectively. Combining practical exercises with group discussion, it will give you new skills and techniques that you can go on to apply to future problems.

You will work on your own, in pairs and in a group to analyse the stylistic problems of different types of text, look at a range of solutions and adjust the presentation and construction to guarantee effective communication.

Learning outcomes

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

explain why a piece of writing doesn’t work
present strategies for improving pieces of writing
adjust the level and tone of a piece of writing
apply the techniques learnt to any text to enhance its accessibility and sense.

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

Who will benefit from this course?

Editorial staff and freelancers who need to rewrite text presented to them.

Programme

Identifying problems and considering solutions
Assessing message, medium, audience
Rewriting text
- To change the level
- To clarify the message
Analysing style
- To add copy
Maintaining the author’s voice
Reducing the text
- Without simplifying
- To simplify
Editing text written in English as a second language
Sentence construction
Presentation
Specialist vocabulary
Editing your own work
Checklist – problems and solutions.

Your Tutor

After a spell in teaching and education research, Andrew Steeds worked as a publisher in three of the major UK educational publishing companies before going freelance in 1992. He now runs Simply Put, a company that offers writing, project management and consultancy to organisations that want to communicate more effectively with the full range of their readers.

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

Dates: 01 June 2015, 19 October 2015, 25 November 2015
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £425+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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