Editing Scientific, Technical and Medical Texts

Dates:

22-23 June & 5-6 October 2010 (a two-day course)

Price:

£719+VAT (a number of discounts are available)

Venue:

The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels)

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Don't be alarmed by complicated manuscripts. After this two-day course you will understand:

how to edit and mark up technical text correctly
how to give clear instructions to typesetters, artists and designers
the impact of DTP and using authors' files
how to handle tables and illustrations, including graphs.

If you edit academic or technical books or journals, but aren't always sure how to deal with tables, formulae, equations, appendices and references, this course will make life much easier for you, and for the designers, typesetters and artists you work with.

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, statistics, abbreviations)
- Significance of italic, bold, indices, spaces, dashes and capitals
Structure and mark-up
- Headings
- Tables
- Illustrations
- References and bibliographies, including e-references
- Other text elements
Language and style
- Scientific modes of expression
- The problem of jargon
- House style
Reference materials
- As part of brief
- Conflicting authorities
- Online resources
The future
Resources
- Reference works and further reading
- Online resources

Online training

This course includes online training and support.

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.

Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in-company events.

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Dates: 22-23 June & 5-6 October 2010

Price: £719+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

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