Le jeudi 28 octobre 9 h à 16 h

 Capital Hill Hotel & Suites, 88 rue Albert, salle Mackenzie, Ottawa

Formatrice : Frances Peck 

"God is the details," the old saying goes, though any editor who has agonized endlessly over a comma or a hyphen might argue that a much darker entity lurks there.

This seminar takes an appropriately detailed look at punctuation and mechanics, including commas (what's right, what's wrong, what's optional), semicolons, colons, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes, hyphens, italics, and the ever-perplexing bullet points. The session presents up-to-date rules and guidelines, examines how punctuation and mechanics affect meaning (for instance, the relationship between commas and modifiers), and looks at some of the most useful style guides available. There will be group and individual exercises throughout the day, and participants are encouraged to bring along troublesome samples for discussion.

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 le 20 octobre 2010

Frais d'inscription (TVH incluse) : membre ACR 215 $; non membre 290 $

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