Advanced Copy-Editing

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Advanced Copy-Editing

The Publishing Training Centre
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This course is designed for editors who have some experience and who wish to extend their skills and knowledge. It tackles a range of complex material present challenges in comprehension, structure and consistency. The course is exercise-based so that you learn through practice as well as discussion. One exercise also involves looking at the proofs of the material to see how the resolution of copy-editing difficulties has worked in practice.

The course will cover:

Multi-Author Works

An in-depth exploration of the issues that arise when working on passages from a multi-author reference work, where authors use different editorial styles, have different approaches to presentation, and provid…

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This course is designed for editors who have some experience and who wish to extend their skills and knowledge. It tackles a range of complex material present challenges in comprehension, structure and consistency. The course is exercise-based so that you learn through practice as well as discussion. One exercise also involves looking at the proofs of the material to see how the resolution of copy-editing difficulties has worked in practice.

The course will cover:

Multi-Author Works

An in-depth exploration of the issues that arise when working on passages from a multi-author reference work, where authors use different editorial styles, have different approaches to presentation, and provide inconsistent and discrepant bibliographical information, all of which has to be made uniform.

Complexity

Examining a variety of complex texts with the aim of helping delegates to see how they can use their existing skills and knowledge to tackle more difficult pieces with confidence; it will involve close examination of the content of the material with the aim of ensuring clarity of presentation, whether with special characters, statistical information or a more tightly structured composition. Areas covered will include creating tables, linguistics and assigning structure.

Working on Second Editions

Looking at the script of a textbook being prepared for a second edition and discussing the requirements of the job, both technical and procedural. In addition, delegates will read the proof of the passage to see how the copy-editing mark-up either presented or resolved problems for the typesetter.

Working with Non-Native English

Working with material from non-native speakers, with the emphasis on understanding why it varies from standard English. Issues that arise could concern interference from a native language and incomplete knowledge of the idioms and unpredictable quirks of English. Delegates are invited to bring along examples from their own work experience to contribute to the classroom debate.

How Should They Have Said It? Rewriting Workshop

A workshop on what is or is not good English: common grammatical errors, ways to clarify ambiguity, avoiding unwelcome nuance or innuendo, avoiding anachronism, parochialism, sexism and other unacceptable usages – and howlers!

Programme

  • Introductions - the aim of the course
  • Multi-Author Works
  • Complexity I – Creating a Table
  • Complexity II – Linguistics
  • Complexity III – Assigning Structure
  • Working on Second Editions
  • What's the Problem?
  • Working with Non-Native English
  • How Should They Have Said It? Rewriting Workshop
  • Questions and discussion.

Who will benefit from this course?

Experienced editors and those who have already attended The Publishing Training Centre'sCopy-Editing Skills training course, or a similar programme.

Your tutor

Margaret Aherne has worked in publishing since 1986 as a proofreader, copy-editor, project manager and tutor/mentor, for clients including Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Routledge and the Audit Commission. She is a tutor on The Publishing Training Centre'sBasic Proofreading by Distance Learning course and is the junior co-author, with Gillian Clarke, of the latest edition. She also assesses applicants for Wiley-Blackwell's copy-editing and project management teams, creating and setting the tests, marking them and giving feedback, then mentoring new project managers. She is a founder member of theSociety for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP), for whom she organises training courses in the Bristol area. She is also a mentor in proofreading and copy-editing on the SfEP's mentoring scheme.

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