
Calling all freelance editors! We are excited to announce that our very own Ally Machate was invited by the Editorial Freelancers Association to deliver her presentation, “An Introduction to Developmental Editing.” If you’re a copyeditor who’s been thinking about adding this level of service to your offerings, or if you’re new to freelance editing and are still figuring out what types of work you want to do, this entry level talk is for you.
Copyeditors, almost certainly in your career, you have edited work that was not ready for prime time. Whether the draft was still very rough or the arguments weak and shaky, you knew the author skipped a step somewhere, because the text was just not ready for copyediting. It may have benefited from a more comprehensive service called “developmental editing” that is meant to help an author improve his or her manuscript in a holistic way, and which should precede the copyediting phase. This presentation will introduce you to developmental editing so that you can identify manuscripts in need of it (and be your clients’ hero), and to expose you to a new type of editing you might consider adding to your repertoire.
In this introduction to developmental editing, you will learn:
• how developmental editing differs from copyediting
• what developmental editors look to improve in different manuscript types
• what it takes to be a great developmental editor
• how to start honing your developmental skills or find other pros to partner with
The webinar will be on April 3, 2018 at 3:00 – 4:30 PM EST.
For future events and webinars, you may contact Education Chair Jennifer Maybin by emailing her at education@the-efa.org.
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