Presenter:
Julie Kay-Wallace
Whether you’re working with scripts, rough sketches, or nearly final art, even the most visual of stories can be aided by an editor’s sharp eye. Learn how to incorporate art directions in your developmental editing, balance text with art in stylistic editing, and proofread with roughs and finished pieces. This course will teach you how to tackle the art portion of an art-based story with confidence.
Book series can be lucrative endeavours for indie authors and publishers alike, but they also come with their own challenges. In this two-part webinar, you will learn about how editing a series differs from editing an individual book.
Presenter:
Suzanne Schaan
Editors are often responsible for creating final documents for users. This session explores how we can make Microsoft Office documents more accessible.
Presenter:
Julie Kay-Wallace
Learn how, why, and where to use descriptive transcripts and make the most of your media!
Presenter:
Suzanne Bowness
Sharing your editing skills with other adult learners can be rewarding and even a creative exercise as you plan how to organize and deliver your material. Yet it can also be intimidating, especially without a plan for how to convey your material in a way that's engaging and outcomes driven.
Have you always been a little mystified about what it is editors do, or even terrified at the prospect of working with one? This webinar breaks down the editing process (the stages of editing) and describes the relationship between editor and author. Bottom line: there's nothing to fear!
Presenter:
Kelly Schrank, MA, ELS
Many editors and medical communicators stumble into working on manuscripts for scientific or medical journals, with little to no training on how to perform a good edit and what’s needed to shepherd a manuscript from draft to submission.
Presenter:
Marie-Hélène Girard
One day your long-term client in the marketing field will entrust you with a "tiny contract" or "very easy confidentiality agreement." Whether we want it or not, legal documents come knocking on our doors. Are you ready? With this crash course for beginners, you will learn everything you need to know about the law to make informed decision about writing, editing and translating in the legal field, from having the confidence to take on basic projects, to providing sound advice to your clientele when it comes to legal documents to finding trustworthy subcontractors.
Presenter:
Letitia Henville
This webinar will describe the political trends that have led to the emergence of research grants facilitation as a field, talk about the kinds of work that grants facilitators, editors, and officers perform, and share her top suggestions for applying for in-house jobs. The webinar will close with recommendations for new in-house research grants editors, to set them up for success in the field and in their careers.
Presenter:
Genevieve Clovis and Andrew Hodges
In this webinar, geared towards developmental editors, Andrew Hodges and Genevieve Clovis will guide you through approaches to worldbuilding theory and practice.
