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If you want to dip a toe into this exciting branch of editing, start with our two-part webinar series on copyediting fiction. Then dive deeper with our self-paced courses on beginning copyediting and getting the most from The Chicago Manual of Style.
Purchase them all together and save 10% on the list price—and yes, if you're an EFA member, you also get the 20% member discount!
This webinar presents a general approach to copyediting fiction. First is the fiction copyeditor’s mindset: supporting the author’s voice and knowing when and how to break the “rules.” Second is a discussion of workflow: manuscript intake, setting up
the style sheet (covered in detail in Part 2), editorial passes and rounds, and querying. The third section covers grammar and usage topics that are common in fiction, including language bloopers (and when or whether to “fix” or query them) and conscious
language. Fourth, we will discuss dialogue: dialogue tags and action beats, punctuation, numbers, and unspoken and electronic dialogue. The webinar closes with a discussion of fact checking in fiction for both real and fictional elements.
This webinar explains the elements of a comprehensive fiction style sheet, and how copyeditors of fiction can develop their sense of what to include on it. The section on general style is similar to that for nonfiction, covering numbers, punctuation,
typography, abbreviations, usage, and a general word list. Tracking not just names of characters and places but also their descriptions and relationships to each other can help the copyeditor ferret out plot discrepancies. Finally, keeping a detailed
timeline by tracking not only individual days but other concrete and relative references to the passage of time can help keep the plot accurate.
This in-depth self-paced course is an introduction to copyediting. Students will learn basic concepts and skills, including levels of editing and types of editors, the use of an editing checklist, assessing and prepping the manuscript, working with Track
Changes and find and replace, using style guides and other reference guides, and querying. We’ll also go over how to copyedit numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, figures and tables, quoted material, and tables of contents.
This self-paced course introduces beginning proofreaders and copyeditors to The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS), focusing on grammar, punctuation, style, and citation. Students should have an excellent grasp of college-level grammar,
for this course will show how CMOS surpasses and clarifies the rules found in standard grammar guides. Familiarity with MLA or APA citation is recommended but not required; the fundamentals of the CMOS notes-and-bibliography system
will be covered. This course focuses not on the business of proofreading and copyediting but on the practicalities of correcting a typical author manuscript.