PEG Accreditation Test 2020 – Part 1: Grammar, Editing, General questions
REPEAT of 2023
Nitty-gritty practical editing webinar: PEG Accreditation Test 2020 – Part 1 Language/Grammar and Editing Questions
Focus: The purpose of this webinar is to demonstrate how questions should be answered, what to do and what not to do, and to clarify how candidates can best prepare themselves for the next accreditation test.
Date: Tuesday, 9 July 2024
Time: 14:00 to 17:00
Place: Online (Zoom meeting)
Facilitator: John Linnegar
CPD hours: Attendees will receive a certificate confirming their attendance and their having earned 3 hours’ worth of formal CPD hours. Those who opt to listen to the audio recording of the webinar instead, without actually attending, will earn formal CPD time equal to one-third of the webinar duration.
Pre-webinar materials: The 2020 Language/Grammar, Editing and General questions will be sent upon registration; or bring your previous test answers along.
About our facilitator
John Linnegar has been a teacher and trainer, and a setter of more tests and examinations than he cares to remember, during a career spanning 40+ years. He has also acted as an external marker and moderator for examinations set by the Western Cape Department of Education and national examinations. With Cathy Robertson, he has been a co-examiner of PEG’s first four accreditation tests and also one of the markers.
About the workshop
The purpose of the webinar/workshop is to demonstrate how questions should be answered, what to do and what not to do, and to clarify how candidates can prepare themselves for the next accreditation test. The vehicle for achieving this purpose will be the questions on language/grammar and on structural, content, stylistic and copy editing in PEG’s 2020 test. It will be useful for those who intend participating to work through these questions beforehand, providing answers where possible, in order to derive maximum benefit from the test. Those who sat the 2020 test should bring their completed tests to the webinar/workshop to enable them to discover where they could have performed better.
Note: The test questions on proofreading and general topics will be covered in Part 2 on 23 July.
Cost
| Affiliation | Early-bird registration fee1 | Registration fee2 |
|---|---|---|
| PEG members | R295* | R380 |
| LAMP members3 | R495 | R580 |
| Non-affiliated members | R695 | R780 |
1Early-bird registration fee: Before or on 3 July
2Between 4 and 7 July
3LAMP members: Association of Southern African Indexers and Bibliographers (ASAIB), ProJourn, Southern African Freelancers’ Association (SAFREA), South African Science Journalists’ Association (SASJA) and the South African Translators’ Institute (SATI).
*A special discount will apply when you register and pay for the TWO Accreditation Test 2020 webinars (Part 1 and Part 2) in advance in one transaction: instead of 2 x R295 = R590, you receive a discount of R120, which means you pay only R470 for those two webinars.
This discount applies only to PEG members and only to an early-bird registration, NOT to the full webinar fee.
Furthermore, should you register and pay for these TWO accreditation webinars AND for the 2024 accreditation test in advance in one transaction, you will qualify for a 20% discount on the total package: instead of 2 x R295 + R950 = R1 540, you receive a discount of R310. The total cost for the two accreditation webinars plus the accreditation test, paid for simultaneously, will therefore be R1 230.
This discount applies only to PEG members and only to an early-bird registration for the accreditation webinars.
Please register by completing and emailing the registration form.
Deadline for registrations: 12:00 on 7 July.