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Editorial Workshops
Editcetera offers workshops in Berkeley, Sacramento, and San Francisco, as well as private mentoring for proofreaders, courses by mail, and on-site training programs custom-designed for individual businesses. Registration for mentoring and for correspondence courses is ongoing.
Spring 2008
IN BERKELEY
IN SACRAMENTO
IN SAN FRANCISCO
PRIVATE MENTORING
PLUS CORRESPONDENCE COURSES
Editcetera workshops in Berkeley are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 2407 Dana Street, between Haste Street and Channing Way. In Sacramento, our workshop is held at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Avenue, between 26th and 27th Streets. Our program in San Francisco is at Nationwide Training Alliance, 250 Montgomery Street, Third Floor, two blocks from BART. Directions will be sent with confirmation of registration.
Basic Copyediting
Six Saturdays, April 5 to 19 and May 3 to 17 (no meeting April 26)
9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
$320 for enrollments paid on or before March 28; $340 after March 28
Class limit: 24
Instructor: Patricia Heinicke
Location: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Classroom F
2620 Capitol Avenue, between 26th and 27th Streets, Sacramento
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to copyedit books, articles, corporate documents, and other material. It introduces the basic tools used by copyeditors as well as basic copyediting techniques, including pencil and paper markup and on-screen markup, typemarking, and queries to authors. Topics include an overview of the editorial process; the varieties of editorial style; and editing art, tables, and reference material.
The textbook for this course is The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Please bring a copy to the first class meeting. Also recommended is The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, by Amy Einsohn (University of California Press, 2nd ed., 2006).
Participants should plan to devote four hours a week outside of class to the reading and copyediting assignments. The course concludes with a mail-in exercise due two weeks after the last class meeting; all submissions will receive a detailed critique from the instructor.
Patricia Heinicke has been a freelance copyeditor for eleven years, and her work ranges from memoirs to Web text to medical abstracts. She has taught copyediting at UC Berkeley Extension and grammar at Media Alliance in San Francisco. Her current clients include scholarly and university presses, journals, and individual authors.
Lessons in Punctuation from the Comma Queen
Saturday, April 5
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$135 for enrollments paid on or before March 28; $145 after March 28
Class limit: 24
Instructor: Robyn Brode Orsini
Location: First Presbyterian Church, Mears Room
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley; enter from Dana Street
How can those little marks of punctuation cause so much distortion or elucidate meaning so efficiently? This workshop gives a short history of punctuation and a lively and comprehensive survey of today’s trends. The instructor covers the most current punctuation rules and how to apply them, the various systems of logic governing punctuation, and how to avoid common pitfalls. Handouts, exercises, and discussion will raise your punctuation skills to royal status.
Note: The workshop includes a lunch break; lunch is not provided.
Robyn Brode Orsini now spends most of her time writing and teaching. She does not condone any panda who just eats, shoots and leaves (if you know what this means, you’ll like this course). She is in love with the nuance of punctuation and its many styles, and hopes this class will nurture this idiosyncratic passion in you as well.
Developmental Editing
Three Mondays, April 7 and 21 and May 5
6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
$175 for enrollments paid on or before March 31; $185 after March 31
Class limit: 24
Instructors: John Bergez, Heather Dutton, and Melissa Stein
Location: First Presbyterian Church, Geneva Building, Calvin Room
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley; enter from Channing Way
What does a publisher expect from a developmental editor? What types of publications require developmental work? How would you begin work on a rough manuscript? These questions and others are answered in this workshop. Experienced editors from textbook, professional, and trade publishing discuss their goals as developmental editors and talk about the process of working with an author to shape a manuscript. Participants apply what they learn to a variety of manuscripts to be discussed in class. Enroll early to receive materials for review before the first class meeting.
John Bergez is coprincipal of Bergez & Woodward Book Development and Editorial Services. John has some thirty years’ experience in book publishing and has been a developmental editor working in general nonfiction, professional and scholarly books, and textbooks since 1982. He is a longtime instructor for both Editcetera and UC Berkeley Extension and a founding member of Bay Area Editors’ Forum.
Heather Dutton started her textbook publishing career in 1993 and has edited texts in psychology, health, college success, and the sciences (geology, astronomy, and biology). She is particularly intrigued by the process of art development. She has worked freelance since early 2002 and has taught Editcetera’s Developmental Editing course since 1998.
Melissa Stein has worked in publishing since 1991. She performs project management, copywriting, and all levels of editing for publishers, packagers, corporations, advertising agencies, nonprofit organizations, and individual writers. Her clients have included Ten Speed Press, Pomegranate, Cleis Press, HarperSanFrancisco, Golden Gate University, Doremus, United Way, and Running Press. She has taught writing at UC Davis and editing for Editcetera and UC Berkeley Extension.
The Versatile Copyeditor
Six Tuesdays, April 8 to May 13
6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
$320 for enrollments paid on or before April 1; $340 after April 1
Class limit: 24
Instructor: Amy Einsohn
Location: First Presbyterian Church, Geneva Building, Calvin Room
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley; enter from Channing Way
This course presents the knowledge and skills that will prepare you to copyedit books, journal articles, corporate documents, and newsletters. Topics include hard-copy and on-screen procedures, tools and resources, and the principles of editorial style.
The textbook for this course is The Copyeditor’s Handbook, written by the instructor and published by the University of California Press. Please bring a copy of the book—either the first edition or the second edition—to the first class meeting. (The first edition is out of print; the second edition is available at many local bookstores, from online booksellers, and from UC Press mail order, at 1.800.777.4726.)
Participants should plan to devote five hours a week outside of class to the reading and copyediting assignments. 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 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).
Electronic Editing
Four Tuesdays, April 15 to May 6
1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
$495 for enrollments paid on or before March 27; $545 after March 27
Class limit: 16
Instructor: Melissa Stein
Location: Nationwide Training Alliance, Third Floor
250 Montgomery Street, San Francisco; two blocks from BART
Still editing with pencil on paper, when on-screen editing is more and more in demand? Want to learn shortcuts, tips, and tricks for working more effectively on-screen? Want to make the editing department in your office more efficient? This course, held in a PC computer lab using Microsoft Word, presents a practical, step-by-step approach to editing electronically.
Gain hands-on experience in making a word processing program do some of the work for you, including customizing global searches, toolbars, keyboard shortcuts, and macros for the tasks you perform most often. Learn about clients’ expectations and how to meet them, including handling author queries, style sheets, typemarking, and file transmission—all electronically. The instructor goes into detail regarding file-handling functions for documents that go through multiple reviews (track changes, versions, and insert comments) and for book manuscripts and other large files (master document). Optional take-home exercises reinforce the techniques you practice in class. You won’t want to go back to paper!
Prerequisite: Basic familiarity with a word processing program.
Melissa Stein has worked in publishing since 1991. She performs project management, copywriting, and all levels of editing for publishers, packagers, corporations, advertising agencies, nonprofit organizations, and individual writers. Her clients have included Ten Speed Press, Pomegranate, Cleis Press, HarperSanFrancisco, Golden Gate University, Doremus, United Way, and Running Press. She has taught writing at UC Davis and editing for Editcetera and UC Berkeley Extension.
Proofreading A to Z
Three Saturdays, May 3 to 17
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$295 for enrollments paid on or before April 25; $315 after April 25
Class limit: 24
Instructor: Robyn Brode Orsini
Location: First Presbyterian Church, Mears Room
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley; enter from Dana Street
A good proofreader must know how to detect and mark for errors in copy, type, and design in the various stages of page proofs. In this workshop, you learn how to use standard proofreading symbols, recognize common misspellings, and use or compile editorial style sheets; follow typesetting conventions and recognize common type styles; proof against layout/design specifications and measure leading; and recognize book elements and their design codes.
Expect to spend three to five hours between classes doing homework exercises and reading from handouts, The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., and Laura Anderson’s McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook, 2nd ed. The course includes in-class practice exercises, self-tests, exercise reviews, and individual instructor feedback. Students must have access to Chicago. The Proofreading Handbook may be purchased in class for about $12; a pica/points gauge may be purchased for about $6.
Note: The workshop includes a lunch break; lunch is not provided.
Robyn Brode Orsini has had a long freelance career as project coordinator, writer, copyeditor, proofreader, and indexer. She was Editcetera’s second coordinator and for many years owned The Compleat Works, a book production company. She has worked on a wide range of books and other published materials. She has written two children’s book series, has a master’s degree in teaching English as a second language, and teaches professional editing at San Francisco State University. She considers proofreading both a skill and an art.
Building Your Editorial Career: Opportunities and Strategies
Tuesday, May 27 (Note new date!)
6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
$75 for enrollments paid on or before May 20; $85 after May 20
Class limit: 30
Instructor: Barbara Fuller
Location: First Presbyterian Church, Geneva Building, Room G206
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley; enter from Channing Way
Whether you are an experienced editor or want to become one, this workshop gives you information on the wide range of Bay Area clients who regularly hire editors and on strategies you can use to obtain work. You learn where to find potential clients, how to present your services to them, and what to do to maintain good working relationships. Come with questions.
Barbara Fuller has worked in publishing since 1985 for a variety of clients, including Computer Literacy Press, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Jossey-Bass Publishers, KQED Books, Lucas Learning, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, National Association of Neonatal Nurses, Prima Publishing, Sierra Club Books, Sierra magazine, and Ten Speed Press. As director of Editcetera, she has helped connect hundreds of clients with qualified freelance publishing professionals. She has taught writing at UC Davis and editing for UC Berkeley Extension as well as for Editcetera.
Technical Editing: 2008 and Beyond
Wednesday, May 28
6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
$75 for enrollments paid on or before May 21; $85 after May 21
Class limit: 24
Instructor: Susan Ledford
Location: First Presbyterian Church, Geneva Building, Calvin Room
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley; enter from Channing Way
Technical editors want to be on the cutting edge—to know what’s happening and be prepared for what’s coming. Publishing editors considering a transition to technical editing want to know what’s different about technical editing. Beginning editors want to know what skills they need to be successful technical editors.
This course explores the elements that define technical editing as a profession and the areas of expertise that are required of technical editors in and beyond 2008. Thus, the course addresses issues such as branding, corporate styles, editing software, minimalism, content management, content editing, incisive editing, accessibility, and editing for translation.
Susan Ledford is a reading and writing specialist, working in education as a teacher and curriculum developer since 1967 and in the high-tech industry as a technical editor and writing consultant since 1997. She is currently editing documentation for Oracle / Hyperion and instructing editors for Oracle University. In recent years, she has taught in San Jose State University’s Professional and Technical Communication Program and delivered various workshops for the Society for Technical Communication.
Freelancing as a Business, Not as a Hobby
Saturday, May 31
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
$135 for enrollments paid on or before May 23; $145 after May 23
Class limit: 24
Instructor: Robyn Brode Orsini
Location: First Presbyterian Church, Mears Room
2407 Dana Street, Berkeley; enter from Dana Street
This workshop focuses on the nuts and bolts of starting and running a freelance business. Topics include pros and cons of freelancing, what’s needed to set up shop, the records you need to keep and licenses you need to have, strategies in interviewing for a job, and approaches to setting rates and doing estimates. The workshop also covers negotiating and writing contracts, scheduling, communicating with clients, getting paid, and handling disputes. Lot of handouts are provided.
Note: The workshop includes a lunch break; lunch is not provided.
Robyn Brode Orsini has been a freelancer in the publishing field for most of her professional career and wouldn’t have it any other way. She has faced most freelancing issues and has many tips to share about how to make freelancing a successful venture.
PRIVATE MENTORING
Mentoring for Proofreaders
Private session: $165
2-hour session at a time to be determined by student and instructor
Location: Face-to-face or telephone conference options available. Location negotiable; 50 cents per mile for instructor travel.
Instructor: Robyn Brode Orsini
You have received a proofreading assignment and aren’t sure you can do a high-quality job. If you qualify for this program, you arrange a meeting with the instructor and bring with you (or fax) a sample of work you have completed on your job. The instructor will evaluate the work, give feedback, answer questions, and provide tips and information for improving your proofreading skills. You walk away more confident about your skills and what is expected of you as a proofreader.
At this time, mentoring services are available only to those who have completed Editcetera’s proofreading workshop or correspondence course.
Robyn Brode Orsini teaches Editcetera’s workshop Proofreading A to Z. Mentoring is her way of continuing to help her students improve their proofreading skills according to their needs.
CORRESPONDENCE PROGRAM
For those who are unable to attend Editcetera’s scheduled workshops, we offer a correspondence program. To find out more, or to register for a correspondence course, check Courses by Mail.
REGISTRATION AND LOCATION
To register, print out and complete the Workshop Enrollment Form and return it with full payment (check or credit card information) to Editcetera.
Editcetera
2034 Blake Street, Suite 5
Berkeley, CA 94704
510.849.1110 phone
510.848.1448 fax
info@editcetera.com
Register early to ensure a place. Upon receipt of your form and payment, we will send you confirmation of registration along with directions to the workshops. For faster registration, fax your enrollment form with credit card information.
Editcetera workshops in Berkeley are held at the First Presbyterian Church, 2407 Dana Street, between Haste Street and Channing Way. In Sacramento, our workshop is held at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 2620 Capitol Avenue, between 26th and 27th Streets. Our program in San Francisco is at Nationwide Training Alliance, 250 Montgomery Street, Third Floor, two blocks from BART. Directions will be sent with confirmation of registration.
Cancellations must be received by noon three working days before the date of the first session. Call 510.849.1110 to cancel. A $25 processing fee per canceled workshop will be applied to each cancellation received on time. We regret that we cannot allow refunds after the deadline.
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