Clear and Concise: Guidelines for Style
Le mardi 10 mai 9 h à 16 h
Capital Hill Hotel & Suites, 88 rue Albert, salle Mackenzie, Ottawa
Formatrice : Frances Peck
Clear, concise style is the backbone of strong writing. It's also the product of lots of cold, hard revision. This seminar presents a variety of stylistic techniques to help language do its job. We'll look at how to create flow, eliminate sloppy shifts and inconsistencies, link ideas using parallelism and subordination, tighten sentence structure, and trim wordiness. Through discussion, examples, and exercises, we'll examine surefire methods for polishing any type of document.
Frances Peck is an editor, writer and instructor with over 20 years' experience. She has taught for the University of Ottawa, Douglas College, Simon Fraser University, associations of editors and translators, magazine publishing groups, and dozens of public and private sector organizations. She prepared the Canadian edition of The St. Martin's Workbook, a university-level grammar exercise book; was a co-author of the popular HyperGrammar website; recently completed Peck's English Pointers, an e-book for the Translation Bureau; and is a regular columnist for journal Language Update. Frances lives in Vancouver and is a partner with West Coast Editorial Associates.
Date limite pour inscription 1 mai 2011
Frais d'inscription (TVH incluse) : membre ACR 215 $; non membre 290 $
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