Editing Quebec English – Not Falling Into the Gallicism Trap (Part 1)

The Cost of Editing: Getting Paid What You're Worth (Part 2)

February 3, 2012

By Traci Williams

CANCELLED

Punctuation and Mechanics

Date: Monday, October 24, 2011
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Place: Maritime Plaza Hotel
Address: 1155 Guy Street, Montreal, H3H 2K5
Instructor: Frances Peck

Cost:
Before October 10:
$80 for EAC student members
$160 for members
$190 for related organizations and non-member students
$230 for non-members

After October 10:
$95 for EAC student members
$190 for members
$220 for related organizations and non-member students
$260 for non-members

Registration closes: October 17
Lunch and 2 coffee breaks included.

“God is in the details,” the old saying goes—though any editor who has agonized endlessly over a comma or a hyphen might argue that a much darker entity lurks there.
This seminar takes an appropriately detailed look at punctuation and mechanics, including commas (what's right, what's wrong, what's optional), semicolons, colons, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, hyphens, italics, and the ever-perplexing bullet points. The session presents up-to-date rules and guidelines, examines how punctuation and mechanics affect meaning (for instance, the relationship between commas and modifiers), and looks at some of the most useful style guides available. There will be group and individual exercises throughout the day, and participants are encouraged to bring along troublesome samples for discussion.

Frances Peck is a Vancouver-based editor, writer and instructor who has taught editing and writing for over 20 years. She prepared the Canadian edition of The St. Martin's Workbook, a university-level grammar exercise book; recently completed Peck's English Pointers, an e-book for the Translation Bureau; and is a regular columnist for the periodical Language Update. A member of West Coast Editorial Associates, Frances is also an instructor with the Print Futures program (Douglas College) and the Writing and Publishing program (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar coordinator: Julia Slater

Clear and Concise: Guidelines for Style

Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Place: Maritime Plaza Hotel
Address:1155 Guy Street, Montreal H3H 2K5
Instructor:Frances Peck

Cost:

Before October 12:
$80 for EAC student members
$160 for members
$190 for related organizations and students (non-EAC member)
$230 for non-members

After October 12:
$95 for EAC student members
$190 for members
$220 for related organizations and students (non-EAC member)
$260 for non-members

Registration closes: October 19

Lunch and 2 coffee breaks included.

Clear, concise style is the backbone of strong writing. It's also the product of lots of cold, hard revision. This seminar presents a variety of stylistic techniques to help language do its job. We'll look at how to create flow, eliminate sloppy shifts and inconsistencies, link ideas using parallelism and subordination, tighten sentence structure, and trim wordiness. Through discussion, examples, and exercises, we'll examine surefire methods for polishing any type of document.

Frances Peck is a Vancouver-based editor, writer and instructor who has taught editing and writing for over 20 years. She prepared the Canadian edition of The St. Martin's Workbook, a university-level grammar exercise book; recently completed Peck's English Pointers, an e-book for the Translation Bureau; and is a regular columnist for the periodical Language Update. A member of West Coast Editorial Associates, Frances is also an instructor with the Print Futures program (Douglas College) and the Writing and Publishing program (Simon Fraser University).

Seminar coordinator: Barbara Dylla

Previous Seminars

Eight Step Editing

Date: Friday, September 9, 2011
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Place: Hotel Ruby Foo's (www.hotelrubyfoos.com)
Address: 7655, boul. Décarie, Montreal
Instructor: Moira White

Cost:

Before August 26:$160 for members
$230 for non-members

After August 26: $190 for members
$260 for non-members

Registration closes: September 2

Lunch and coffee breaks included.

Eight-Step Editing breaks the editorial process down into a series of tasks that will improve the readability of the final product. If you're an editor, whatever your experience level (from novice to expert), this seminar will help you develop a systematic approach and identify functions you may have been performing only intuitively. If you're a writer, the Eight-Step process will give you techniques for improving your manuscript before it goes to an editor.

Moira Rayner White entered the work world as a social worker and later moved into social policy. In both professions, she found that her organizational skills, attention to detail, and love of words were pointing her in a new direction-the world of editing. Currently a freelance editor and writer with both public and private sector clients, she has a decade of experience editing print and electronic publications. Moira is past president of EAC.

Seminar coordinator: Barbara Dylla

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