In Berkeley and San Francisco

Chicago 16: What's New?

Date

Choose either

Session I, Berkeley: Tuesday, November 9; 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

or

Session II, San Francisco: Saturday, December 4; 10:00 a.m. to

1:00 p.m.

Cost $75
Class Limit 24
Instructors Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz
Location

Session I, November 9: First Presbyterian Church, Mears Room (Westminster Hall), 2407 Dana Street, Berkeley

(see http://www.fpcberkeley.org/campusmap.asp for maps and directions)

Session II, December 4: Meeting and Activity Space at Fort

Mason Center (enter from Buchanan Street and Marina Boulevard),

San Francisco, Room C205

(see http://www.fortmason.org/aboutus/visitor-information for a map and directions)

Every copyeditor, proofreader, and production editor who uses The Chicago Manual of Style is facing a huge homework assignment this fall: tackling the just-released 1,026-page 16th edition.

To save you some time and to add a note of collegial conviviality to this solitary chore, this three-hour workshop offers a concise review of the changes in the recommendations concerning editorial style (punctuation, hyphenation, capitalization, abbreviations, etc.).

We will also examine the manual’s efforts to enhance its usefulness for nonbook and nonprint publishers. Time, however, prevents us from examining some of the more-specialized topics covered in the manual: mathematics, foreign languages, and indexing.

Expect a lively and informative discussion, with lots of time for questions.

Note: Editcetera expects to schedule additional offerings of this workshop in Berkeley (and perhaps in San Francisco) later this fall and into the winter. The dates and times will be posted on the Editcetera Web site and will be e-mailed to everyone on our workshop e-mail list. To add your name to this list, send an e-mail to info@editcetera.com with the subject line “Add me to your workshop e-mail list.” Those on our list will also receive updated information about a computer-based version of this workshop, expected to be launched in December or January. That version will use PDFs, podcasts, and a “private” Web site for question-and-answer sessions and will be entirely self-paced. Watch for more information.

Amy Einsohn is a freelance editor and writer with thirty 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, 2nd ed., 2006).

Marilyn Schwartz is the Managing Editor and Composition Manager of the University of California Press. For many years, she taught copyediting for UC Berkeley Extension, and she serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the newsletter Copyediting. She is the lead author of Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing (Indiana University Press, 1995).

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