Catégorie 2 : Techniques et technologies 1

Le mentorat éclair est une occasion en or pour les débutants de recevoir des conseils pratiques et des idées inspirantes de la part de réviseurs chevronnés. Le congrès annuel vous offre la possibilité de rencontrer une membre très réputée de l’ACR pour une consultation de 15 minutes. Dans le bulletin électronique de l’ACR, qui sera diffusé au début du mois de mai, vous trouverez tous les détails pour vous inscrire à la session de votre choix.

Cette année, les réviseurs à votre disposition pour une session de mentorat éclair en anglais sont :

• Elizabeth d’Anjou – Getting started as a freelance editor (se lancer à son compte à titre de réviseur)
• Emily Dockrill Jones – Marketing yourself (promouvoir ses services)
• Barbara Dylla – Working with translation/travailler en tant que traductrice (en anglais ou en français)
• Arden Ogg – Working with First Nations writing and writers (collaborer avec les auteurs autochtones)
• Frances Peck – Editing for government and other organizations; plain language (réviser pour le gouvernement et d’autres organisations; le style clair et simple)

Après avoir obtenu un Certificate in Translating de l’Université McGill en 2004, Barbara Dylla a entrepris une troisième carrière dans le domaine de la traduction. Elle s’est lancée à son compte en 2007 et elle est membre de l’ACR depuis 2010. 

All editors and writers need to be able to shorten texts. Brevity enhances readability; squeezes content into limited spaces; saves money on translation, proofreading and printing; and increases social-media quotability. This session provides principles, techniques and tools for efficiently trimming texts, as well as the justification for that trimming. We’ll practise on material such as correspondence, newspaper articles and headings, reports, instructions, interview and meeting transcripts, PowerPoint slides, abstracts and tweets. 

Elizabeth Macfie, a freelance editor, indexer, and editorial-skills trainer, is an EAC-certified copy editor, stylistic editor, and proofreader. She is a past chair of EAC-NCR.

Atlantic Canada has a vibrant and thriving magazine industry. Hear from a few of the region's leading magazine editors about what it's like to edit a regional magazine in a digital world. Learn from some of the strategies they employ to plan, create and manage content, both online and in print. Discuss the differences and similarities between magazine and book editing, and much more!

Barry Boyce has worked in periodical, book, and digital publishing for 35 years, as a writer and editor. He is currently editor-in-chief of Mindful magazine and mindful.org.

David Holt is the editor of OptiMYz, Canada’s leading health and fitness magazine.  The founding editor of Progress, a regional business magazine, he is on the board of the Atlantic Magazines Association.

An editor and writer with over 25 years of experience in the magazine industry, Alexa Thompson has also worked with non-fiction, children’s “chapter” books, and curriculum on drug education prevention and intervention programming.

Heather White has worked in magazine publishing for more than 20 years; she is currently the editor of Saltscapes, an award-winning regional magazine in Bedford, NS.

Numeracy is important for all editors, not just science and math editors. Most of us run into conversion of measurements, accuracy and precision, and graphs and tables in our work. This presentation discusses these issues using exercises that show the participants what to look for as well as how to fix them.

An editor all her life, Rosemary Tanner particularly enjoys making science understandable to the general public.

Ailing charts are the plague of editing. But there is hope. In this fun and interactive session, you’ll learn how to diagnose and treat the typical chart diseases found in materials aimed at a general audience. If you can revive flatlining charts to make them understandable and accurate, you’ll be more valuable to your clients and employers. Your readers will also thank you, stat!

The Chart Doctor, Laurel Hyatt, has been a writer and editor for more than 25 years, working at Statistics Canada and other chart-loving places.