Rewriting and Substantive Editing Editing in Word
A one-day course in London £385+VAT 30 March, 26 June & 14 September 2012
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.
The course will boost your confidence by showing you:
• why a piece of writing doesn’t work • strategies for improving pieces of writing • how to adjust the level and tone of a piece of writing •
A one-day course in London £385+VAT
7 December 2011 23 February, 31 May, 7 August & 30 October 2012
You can change an author’s file on screen relatively easily – but editing it efficiently and effectively requires more skill and specialist knowledge. Through a series of hands-on exercises, this course shows you how to make on-screen editing a more efficient process, improving the speed and quality of your work. You will also learn ‘best practice’ in preparing files for import into typesetting programmes.
You will learn to:
techniques you can apply to any text to enhance its accessibility and sense.
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.
Programme • Identifying problems and considering solutions • Assessing message and 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 – In order to simplify
• Editing text written in English as a second language • Sentence construction • Presentation • Specialist vocabulary • Editing your own work • Checklist – problems and solutions.
Who will benefit from this course?
Editorial staff and freelances who need to rewrite text presented to them. 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.
See also:
Grappling with Grammar, p 35 Digital Editing, p 11
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• edit efficiently on screen • prepare files in the best form for typesetting • create macros to ‘clean’ files automatically • flag changes to files electronically • customise Word for editing • find invaluable Internet resources.
Note: Every student will have sole use of a computer with all relevant software. The basic techniques will be applicable to all platforms.
Programme
• Introduction to macros – Recording and running macros – Benefits of clean-up and house style macros
– A peek at macro programming commands
• Preparation for on-screen editing – Benefits of and concerns about on-screen editing: version control, quality, physical issues, finding and briefing an on-screen editor – Checklist for an on-screen edit
• Assessing the job – Identifying and correcting authors’ layout and formatting problems – Handling special characters – File preparation for optimal import into publishing programmes
• Templates, styles and codes – Understanding how templates work – Creating and using templates and styles
– Benefits – Principles of coding
• Viewing the document – The document map – The style area – Outline View
• Find and replace
– Tips for better, safer global searches – Replacing formatting and styles – The Special menu – Wildcard searches
• Shortcut keys – Efficient navigation and text selection – Case conversion
– Inserting special characters
• On-screen mark-up (Track Changes) – Tips to make Track Changes more useful
– Comparing and merging documents – Protecting the document and checking for sensitive information
• Master documents – Linking files electronically: creating and editing master documents
• Customisation
– AutoText and AutoCorrect – Customising shortcut keys and the Quick Access Toolbar
• Tables
– Creating and editing tables – Converting tables to text – Creating a table of contents
• Online resources and further reading. Who will benefit from this course?
Editorial staff and freelances who use Word to edit authors’ text on-screen or who brief others to edit on-screen. This course is focused on teaching you how to edit on-screen, not what to edit. If you are a beginner you would benefit from attending Copy-Editing Skills first.
“Aspects of rewriting including reasons for rewriting and when it is or isn’t necessary. I would recommend the course to anyone who deals with other people’s texts.” Lifetime Careers Publishing delegate
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 Copy-editing (CUP, 2006) and contributed to New Hart’s Rules (OUP, 2005). She has a Licentiateship in Editorial Skills from the City & Guilds Institute.
www.train4publishing.co.uk •
bookings@bookhouse.co.uk • 020 8874 2718
EDITORIAL COURSES: Editorial Skills for Publishers
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