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Advanced Copyediting for Technical Documentation
(One-day workshop)
Date(s):
Aug 10 | Dec 14
Instructor(s): Peter Keville
Description
In this workshop you’ll learn how to make substantive changes on technical manuals. Through exercises, real-life scenarios, and discussions, you will master the skills of assessing a manuscript, organizing content, estimating edit time, adding and deleting text without changing its meaning, avoiding jargon, eliminating redundant language, and managing key relationships. You will also learn "tricks of the trade" that will increase your efficiency and productivity. A quick review of copyediting basics will be included.
Prerequisites
The workshop assumes that participants have at least two years of technical writing/editing experience and are generally familiar with common editorial rules and in-house style guides, general copyediting techniques and proofreading symbols, types and levels of editing, editing and rewriting, and the writer/editor review process.
Topics Include:
- Lesson 1: Levels of Editing
- Assessing needs and determining levels of edit
- Factors influencing edit time
- Guidelines for time estimates
- Developing and using a checklist
- Lesson 2: Exercise on assessing a manuscript
- Assessing a manuscript
- Medical instrumentation piece
- Sample manuscript
- Lesson 3: Peer editing
- Lesson 4: Substantive and developmental editing skills
- Organizing and rewriting
- Exercise: Organization
- Exercise: Tone
- Transitions
- Noun Strings
- Jargon
- Exercise: Jargon and Inflated language
- Exercise: Plain English
- Syntax
- Special issues
- Lesson 5: Editor/Writer/Supervisor relationships
- Editors deal with people as well as with words
- Justifying your edits
- Scenario exercises
- What do you do? General guidelines for editor-writer relationships
- Lesson 6: Online vs. paper editing
- Online vs. Paper
- Current online editing tools
- Lesson 7: Productivity and Efficiency Tips
- Some things to remember
- Effective writing checklist
To learn more about nSight training programs and for assistance, please contact our Training department at 781-273-6300 or Training@nSightWorks.com.
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