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The Versatile Copyeditor

Dates	Six Wednesdays, May 4 to June 8; 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Cost	$320 for enrollments paid on or before April 27; $340 after April 27
Class Limit	20
Instructor	Amy Einsohn
Location	First Presbyterian Church, 2407 Dana Street, Berkeley Room G207, Geneva Hall (see First Presbyterian maps and directions)

This workshop presents the knowledge and skills that will prepare you to copyedit books, journal articles, corporate documents, and newsletters. Topics include hard-copy and electronic procedures and tools, reference books and online resources, and the principles of editorial style (with examples from The Chicago Manual of Style, The Associated Press Stylebook, and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association).

The workshop is designed for

• People who have little or no copyediting experience but do have a solid grasp of grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation
• Proofreaders, indexers, newsletter editors, production managers, and desktop publishers who want to add copyediting skills to their repertoire
• Onetime copyeditors who want a refresher course

The textbook for this workshop is The Copyeditor’s Handbook, written by the instructor and published by the University of California Press. Bring a copy of the book (any edition) to the first class meeting. You can order your copy from a local bookstore, from Amazon.com or another online bookseller, or from UC Press mail order (1-800-777-4726).

Participants should expect to spend about five hours a week outside of class on the reading assignments and the copyediting exercises, which may be completed on hard copy or in Microsoft Word.

The course concludes with a mail-in exercise due two weeks after the last meeting; all submissions will receive a detailed critique from the instructor.

Note: Editcetera offers two introductory courses in copyediting. The courses cover essentially the same topics but use different texts. Reading assignments for The Versatile Copyeditor are from The Copyeditor’s Handbook; Basic Copyediting entails the study of selected chapters from The Chicago Manual of Style.

Amy Einsohn is a freelance editor and writer with more than twenty-five years of experience in the Bay Area business, publishing, and academic communities. She has taught editing classes through Editcetera since 1986 and has also taught at UC Berkeley and UC Berkeley Extension. She is the author of The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications (University of California Press, 2000; 2nd ed., 2006), which has been adopted as a core textbook by many college-level publishing programs, including University of California Extension, Harvard University Extension, University of Washington Extension, and the Graduate School of the USDA.

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