Final Session on Editorial & Production In our final session with Jess we used the variety of methods and skills we had learnt with her to edit different types of documents such as a BBC new article, a chapter from Harry Potter and a music review. My ability to notice errors, even in a few …
Category Archives: Editorial & Production
Week 11: Wednesday 5th December 2018
Editing to a brief continued After our exam last week, Jess used our session to go back and work on handwritten copyediting, which is used in certain publishing houses and particularly in journalistic editing and therefore beneficial to practise more. Official handwritten copyediting involves using shorthand symbols to save time and make the process less …
Week 10: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Exam Today we carried out a 1-hour copy-editing exam. I revised throughout the week completely all extra exercise Jess set us and getting feedback from her on these. Another recommendation from Jess was to try the New York Times exercises online on. These were harder as they did not adhere to the Bloomsbury style guide …
Week 9: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Editing a brief Today consisted of several copy-editing exercises carried out on our own, as a class and getting 1-1 time with Jess to discuss issues. In preparation for next week’s test we only used a dictionary to edit. This felt more challenging as we could not rely on the internet or spellcheck as a …
Week 8: Wednesday 14th November 2018
Skills Development Our second lecture with Jess continued with copy-editing. We carried out exercises to further improve our ability to spot errors and correct work. The exercises involved printed out pages which we edited by hand. The main difference this week was using style guides to edit. The fundamentals of spelling and grammar apply to …
Week 7: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Overview of copy editing This lecture was taken by Jess Howarth, a copyeditor. This role includes the initial reviewing and correcting of written aspect of books, dealing with grammar, spelling and querying inconstancies, following a style guide which is subjective to different publishers. Jess talked about the basic skills needed for the role and the …
Week 6: Wednesday 31st October 2018
The importance of Sales & Marketing and the vital connection with commissioning Our last session with Kevin Duffy was on sales and marketing, which is involved with all departments. Kevin stated it is about getting as much information as possible beforehand so teams can begin working on ideas for things such as sale techniques, advertising, …
Week 5: Wednesday 24th October 2018
University Reflection Week This was a reading week for UCLAN. I spent the time reading around all the subjects and topics we had covered so far. Carrying out essential and recommended reading. I feel the week allowed me to reflect on the work done so far and these make sure I had further understanding on …
Week 4: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Publishing in the UK & Internationally Today’s lecture was taken by Kevin Duffy and focused on differences between corporate and independent publishers. Kevin works for a very successful, independent publishers in Hebden Bridge, called Bluemoose, which he founded with his wife in 2006. Corporate include the Big 5 publishing houses; Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, …
Week 3: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Contracts The focus of our last lecture with Tony was publishing contracts between authors and publishing houses. Contracts are written documents that are set with 23 clauses, covering many aspects such as, the title of the book, copyright, death of the author and payment. This will be discussed back and forth until all parties are …
Publishing 'Hows' 