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Editing Scientific, Technical and Medical Texts

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A two-day course

Start date:

16 September 2015

Venue:

DV West One – Portland Place, London W1B 1PR

Courses scheduled to start at 9.30am prompt and end at approximately 5pm.

Price:

£795+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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‘I enjoyed the course. I think all new recruits to STM publishing should be sent on this as soon as they join! Very useful.’
Cambridge University Press delegate

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Learning outcomes

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

edit and mark up technical text correctly on-screen and on paper
handle tables and illustrations, including graphs
understand the main referencing systems in scientific works
distinguish between technical language and jargon
give clear instructions to typesetters, artists and designers.

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

Who will benefit from this course?

Anyone who is involved with the development of scientific, technical and medical texts, including editorial assistants, copy-editors, desk editors, proofreaders, development editors, commissioning editors and freelancers.

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, indices, maths and statistics, abbreviations)
- Significance of italic, roman, bold, super/subscripts, spaces, dashes and capitalisation
Language and style
- Scientific modes of expression
- The problem of jargon
- Editing for clarity
- English as a second language
- House style
Structure and mark-up
- Headings
- Tables
- Illustrations
- References and bibliographies
- Other text elements (prelims, abstracts, displayed text, foot/endnotes, end matter)
Resources
- Reference works and further reading
- Online resources.

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 proofreading, and project management. She was editor-in-chief of the second edition of New Hart’s Rules (OUP, 2014), and wrote the on-screen editing chapter in the fourth edition of Butcher’s Copy-editing (CUP, 2006). Anne has a Licentiateship in Editorial Skills from the City & Guilds Institute.

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

Dates: 16 September 2015
Duration: A two-day course
Price: £795+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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