Accreditation Test 2021 Part 1: Language/Grammar plus Editing Question 2A and General Question 4A
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. It is not the purpose of these webinars to provide model answers for any of the test questions, as doing so will serve no purpose, given the fact that the questions will differ from one test to the next.
Date: Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Time: 15:00 to 18:00
Place: Online (Zoom meeting)
Facilitators: Cathy Robertson (with co-examiner 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: A set of documents to read will be emailed to participants prior to the webinar.
About our facilitators
Cathy Robertson has had rather a chequered career, having qualified as an English and Afrikaans teacher donkey’s years ago and spent about five years teaching Grades 9–12. She has spent time as an Avis rental car marketing manager, assistant marketing manager at Anglo American Properties, launching Marina da Gama (in Cape Town), a few years lecturing English at a teachers’ training college and many years at a TVET college, first lecturing Communication and Public Relations and then retiring as Vice Principal: Innovation and Development (Skills Development).
She has written learning materials for the Food and Beverage Seta, an English first language textbook for Damelin and L4 learning material for Communication for Future Managers. She was a marker and examiner for the Department of Education for many years and has been an external moderator for Umalusi since 2003, moderating external national examination papers and functioning as an external moderator at marking centres. She therefore has many years’ experience in setting and marking external examinations. She has been writing the national report on continuous internal assessments at TVET colleges for Umalusi, a quality assurance body, since 2012.
Cathy has been on PEG’s Western Cape branch committee for a couple of years. She is currently mentoring the fifth in a line of mentees. With John Linnegar she has been a co-examiner of PEG’s first three accreditation tests and also one of the markers of the tests.
Academically, she has a PhD in Curriculum Studies and is a research associate at Stellenbosch University. She has delivered numerous papers, published chapters in academic books on metaphor and academic writing as well as academic articles. For the past several years, she has also been a member of the editorial board and managing editor of an academic journal named JOVACET under the auspices of the University of the Western Cape.
She has been awarded the Business Trust Trophy for the promotion of Human Resource Development in the Western Cape, the Rotary Merit Award for Service to the Community beyond the call of duty and a Lifetime Achiever award from the Western Cape Education Department.
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 three accreditation tests and also one of the markers.
About the webinar
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 question 2A, on structural, content, stylistic and copy editing of a recipe, and general question 4A, in PEG’s 2021 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 and the webinar. Those who sat a previous test should bring their completed tests to the webinar/workshop to enable them to discover where they could have performed better.
Cost
| Affiliation | Early-bird registration fee1 | Registration fee2 |
|---|---|---|
| PEG members | R295* | R380 |
| LAMP members3 | R495 | R580 |
| Non-affiliated members | R695 | R780 |
1Before or on 7 August
2Between 8 and 12 August
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 applies when you register and pay for THREE Accreditation Test 2021 webinars (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) in advance in one transaction.
Instead of 3 × R295 = R885 (or 3 × R380 = R1 140), you receive a discount of R185, which means you pay only R700 for all THREE webinars. This discount applies only to PEG members. Registration for the individual webinars incurs the normal webinar fees, both early bird and full.
Please register by completing and emailing the registration form.
Deadline for registrations: 12:00 on Monday 12 August.