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Copy-editing and proofreading by John Linnegar
24 April 2025 - 15 May 2025
The course consists of six three-hour sessions with appropriate exercises issued to the participants as preparation for each session.
John Linnegar has been an improver of writers’ words for more than four decades, having specialised in the academic articles, textbooks, theses and dissertations of authors across the globe. He also taught academic writing skills to doctoral students at the University of Antwerp for several years. And he continues to edit articles and textbooks for academic journal and book publishers in South Africa and Europe. He has been training individuals in copy-editing and proofreading skills since 1999.
For more information about registration and payment:
Bronwyn Geldenhuys: Bronwyn.geldenhuys@uct.ac.za
COPY-EDITING AND PROOFREADING by JOHN LINNEGAR
Dates: 24 April to 15 May (Tuesdays and Thursdays)
Time: 18:00 to 21:00
Course fee: R6 500 full fee: Staff and students: R6 000: Professional Editors’ Guild members R6 000
Maximum: 30 participants
Platform: Zoom
This course will equip you with a range of knowledge and skills that will enable you to improve a variety of aspects of texts to render them publication-worthy. It is also designed to equip newcomers to enter the world of publishing; or, if you are already in publishing, it will equip you with formal knowledge and skills where perhaps you have hitherto acquired them only informally or partially. Completing this course has already helped some employees move from the periphery into editorial positions. The course also prepares trainees for the various editing and proofreading tests that some publishers set for aspirant freelancers or employees. It is strongly suggested that participants who complete this course and the post-training assignment gain some experience in putting their learning into practice before proceeding to the Advanced copy editing and proofreading course. Doing so will enable them to derive maximum benefit from the Advanced course, thanks to their actually having engaged with the problems and errors that arise in manuscripts (or Word documents on-screen).
This course will also enable editors to set and apply a uniform standard of proofreading at the various stages of proofs when proofreading themselves on either hard copy or on-screen using Adobe Acrobat Reader to mark up corrections on proofs.