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EFA hosts one-day workshops, seminars, and classroom and online courses designed especially for editorial freelancers. All courses are open to members and nonmembers and require advance registration. Members enjoy reduced tuition. In-person courses are held at the EFA headquarters, 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1910, New York, N.Y.; online courses are available to participants nationwide.
Many
Spring
courses sold out quickly. Register now to ensure acceptance
in the courses of your choice—don’t be shut out.
- Back by request, online
Substantive Editing
Clinic
- New course
Advanced Substantive Editing Clinic
- New course
DISCOUNT: Save 20% if you register for both editing clinics
Query Letters That Rock
- New course, online
Copyediting Basics
- Back by
request,
online
Cultivating Your Client List
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New course, online
Copyediting with Microsoft Word
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Course full. Registration closed. |
Although many copy editors are reluctant to give up
paper and pencil, there are significant advantages to copyediting on
computers. After learning the capabilities of Microsoft Word, you will be
equipped to use this popular program as an efficient editing tool in your
work. Topics include
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making the transition from paper to
computer editing |
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key commands |
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formatting and how to present a clean
file to your client |
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using the Track Changes feature |
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searches, spell checking, and custom
dictionaries |
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publishers’ templates |
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macros basics |
Requirements: Microsoft Word on Mac or
Windows, e-mail program, Internet browser, and familiarity with basic
functions of Microsoft Word.
Instructor Donna Lysak has more than ten years
of in-house and freelance editing experience. She is certified by the
Board of Editors in the Life Sciences and is also a member of the Council
of Science Editors, American Medical Writers Association, and EFA.
Freelance clients have included John Wiley & Sons, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the New York Academy of Sciences.
Currently, Donna is Managing Editor at Virtucom Group, which provides
online content to major retailers such as RadioShack, Best Buy, and The
Home Depot. She lives in Cazenovia, N.Y.
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Mondays & Thursdays, October 16–November 9 (8
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FEE:
EFA Members $110 / Nonmembers $130 |
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Substantive Editing Clinic
New Course
This intensive one-day clinic focuses on editing for
clarity. A hands-on course, it is built around exercises ranging from
individual sentences to paragraphs that develop close reading, effective
querying, and efficient editing. The course assumes knowledge of grammar,
punctuation, spelling, and style, and it provides an outstanding
introduction to the substantive editing function.
Instructor Maron L. Waxman, retired editorial
director, special projects, at the American Museum of Natural History, was
also editorial director of trade reference at HarperCollins and of book
development at Book-of-the-Month Club. She has taught in both the NYU and
CUNY publishing programs and has led editorial workshops at Editorial
Experts and several writers’ and editors’ conferences.
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Saturday, November 4, 9:30
a.m.–5:00
p.m.
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FEE:
EFA Members $150 / Nonmembers $180 |
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Advanced Substantive Editing Clinic
New Course
Picking up where Maron L. Waxman’s Substantive
Editing Clinic left off, this advanced workshop provides editors with
techniques for editing instructions, identifying and correcting weak
organization, assessing the quality and accuracy of the writer’s
information, setting the correct tone for the intended audience, and
creating an effective relationship with the writer. All work is based on
actual manuscripts. The course stands alone but assumes a working
knowledge of material covered in the basic workshop.
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Saturday, November 4, 9:30
a.m.–5:00
p.m. |
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FEE:
EFA
Members $150 / Nonmembers $180 |
DISCOUNT: Save 20%
when you sign up for both substantive editing clinics!
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Query Letters That Rock
Online / New Course
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Query
Letters That Rock Will Now Start
Tuesday, November 14 |
EFA is postponing the start
date for the online magazine writing class Query Letters That Rock due to an
unavoidable change in the instructors' availability. The course will now
start on Tuesday, November 14. (Note that the instructors will also extend
the final session in order to work around the Thanksgiving holiday.)
We apologize for any inconvenience. EFA will continue taking registrations
for the course this week—be sure to reserve your spot soon!
Want to write for magazines—or boost your
magazine-writing income? In this four-session course, you will learn how
to write a query letter that will knock magazine editors’ socks off! Each
lesson includes an assignment that you can do at home, extra tips and
resources, and full online support from instructors Linda Formichelli and
Diana Burrell, coauthors of the popular book The Renegade Writer: A
Totally Unconventional Guide to Freelance Writing and its upcoming
follow-ups The Renegade Writer’s Query Letters That Rock (available
November 2006) and The Renegade Author: A Totally Unconventional Guide
to Getting Your Book Published (available fall 2007).
Instructor Linda Formichelli writes for
Redbook, USA Weekend, Fitness, Women’s Health, Business.com, Writer’s
Digest, Natural Health, and other magazines. Her author credits
include The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting and Running a Coffee
Bar. Linda’s Web site is
www.lindaformichelli.com, and the Renegade
Writer blog is at
renegadewriterblog.blogspot.com. She
lives in Concord, N.H., with her freelance-writer husband and a
16-year-old cat. Instructor Diana Burrell is a Boston-based
freelance journalist and author with magazine credits including SELF, Parenting, Family Circle, Psychology Today, Oxygen, Writer's Digest, The
Writer, and more; she also authored Secrets of Successful Weight
Loss. She can be found on the Web at
www.ninetofive.com and
renegadewriterblog.blogspot.com.
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Tuesdays & Fridays, November 7–17 (4 sessions) |
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FEE: EFA
Members $95 / Nonmembers $115 |
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Copyediting Basics
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Course full. Registration closed. |
Participants will learn essential copyediting skills: untangling common
grammatical errors; distinguishing between punctuation rules and styles;
establishing or working with number style; and applying language
editing with a light hand that respects an author’s voice. Gain a seasoned
editor’s tips on using lesser-known features of the dictionary and finding
what you need, fast, in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition). Coursework
includes on-screen exercises using MS Word and readings from The Copyeditor’s
Handbook by Amy Einsohn.
Instructor Kris Fulsaas is a freelance editor and
proofreader whose clientele include Countryman Press, Media Partners,
Sasquatch Books, Mountaineers Books, and Washington Law & Politics. She’s an
instructor in the University of Washington’s editing certificate program. In
28 years in publishing, Fulsaas has been a book production editor and a
magazine production manager.
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Wednesdays, November 8–December 13 (6 sessions) |
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FEE:
EFA Members $100 / Nonmembers $120 |
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Cultivating Your Client List
Online / New Course
Most editorial freelancers will tell you they get
their clients by word of mouth. But the savviest freelancers know that
harvesting clients is the fastest route to success. In this class, we’ll
discuss ways to develop a niche, target dream clients, weed out deadbeats,
and shamelessly self-promote (even if you’re an introvert). Whether you’re
a writer, editor, indexer, or designer, this course will show you how a
little planning and chutzpah can go a long way toward growing your client
list.
Instructor Michelle Goodman has worked as a
freelance writer and editor for 15 years. She has written about
alternative careers and popular culture for publications such as Salon,
Seattle Times, Bust, Bitch, and The Bark. To keep a roof over
her head, she wrangles print and online text for high-tech empires, book
publishers, and peddlers of new-age philosophy. She is author of The
Anti 9-to-5 Guide: Practical Career Advice for Women Who Think Outside the
Cube, due out from Seal Press in December 2006.
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Tuesdays, November 28–December 19 (4 sessions) |
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FEE:
EFA Members $95 / Nonmembers $115 |
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About Online Courses:
The dates given for online courses are when postings appear.
Generally, participants have two to three days to read and respond to
each posting—you don’t have to be at your computer at the moment the
posting appears. Here’s what a participant in one of our online
courses wrote to us last year:
Even though the class began just when I got a big project with a
tight deadline, I found being able to approach the class materials
at my own pace to be a huge asset.…This format seems ideal for the
unpredictable life of the freelancer.
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Here are some of our past offerings.
Tell us what topics interest you.
- Writing Children’s Books: A Primer
- Succeeding as a Magazine Writer
- Marketing Yourself: A Primer
- Medical Copyediting: An
Introduction
- Grammar for Writers and Editors
- Fundamentals of Copyediting and
Proofreading
- Writing with Grammar and Style
- The Art of Cold Calling
- The Business of Editorial
Freelancing
- Breaking Into Corporate Writing
- Supplement Your Income with Public
Relations
- Contracts for Freelancers
- Copyright and Permissions
- Editing Footnotes, References, and
Bibliographies:
What Chicago Doesn’t Tell You
- On the Record: Becoming a
Successful Interviewer
- Organization for Greater Efficiency
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