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“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.

Instructor: Frances Peck, an editor and writer, has been working with words for over 20 years. She teaches editing at Simon Fraser University and Douglas College, and gives workshops for EAC and other groups of editors, writers, and translators across Canada. She prepared the Canadian edition of The St. Martin’s Workbook, a grammar exercise book; co-authored the popular HyperGrammar website; wrote Peck’s English Pointers, an e-book available through the Language Portal of Canada; and writes a regular column for the journal Language Update. Frances lives in Vancouver and is a partner with West Coast Editorial Associates

Friday, May 11     ****Hosted by the Kitchener-Waterloo-Guelph twig!****
9:30 am -4:30 pm
Registration - $230 members, $260 non-members (HST extra)
Early Registration (to May 4) - $195 members, $225 non-members (HST extra) 
Kitchener Public Library, Grand River Stanley Park branch,
175 Indian Road, Kitchener