STIBC: Tips for Editing and Proofreading (A Full-Day Workshop)

Tips for Editing and Proofreading (one day)

This workshop offers guidelines and tips to help you minimally edit and proofread documents more effectively. Following a review of the different levels of editing, you will learn how to improve consistency, expression and correctness in documents and how to spot the most common errors, omissions and weaknesses. The workshop includes practice activities as well as a real-life editing exercise. 

Facilitator bio:

Frances Peck, BA, MA, is a writer and Certified Professional Editor (Hon.) who works on material ranging from manuals and websites to technical documents and reports. Most of her clients are in the government, corporate, non-profit and association sectors. She has taught at the University of Ottawa, Simon Fraser University and Douglas College, and gives editing and writing workshops across Canada. Frances prepared the Canadian edition of The St. Martin's Workbook, co-authored the HyperGrammar website and wrote Peck's English Pointers, an e-book published by Canada's Translation Bureau. She is a longtime member of Editors Canada and a partner with West Coast Editorial Associates.

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