PEG Accreditation Test 2021 – Part 3: Business Editing and Proofreading questions
Join PEG for a webinar on the PEG accreditation test 2021 as preparation for sitting the 2023 test.
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 the ways in which candidates can best prepare themselves for the next accreditation test.
Date: Thursday, 4 May 2023
Time: 09:30–13:00
Place: Online (Zoom meeting)
Facilitator: Cathy Robertson (with co-examiner John Linnegar)
Pre-webinar materials: The 2021 Language/Grammar, Editing and General questions will be sent upon registration; or bring your 2021 test answers along.
CPD hours: You will qualify for 3 hours of core CPD when you attend this webinar and only 30 minutes of discretionary CPD if you listen to the recording only without proof of attendance.
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 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 vehicles 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. Those who sat the 2021 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 editing question 2B and general topics 4B and 4C were covered in Part 2 on 19 April. Editing question 2C and the proofreading questions were covered in Part 1 on 4 April.)
Cost
| Affiliation | Early-bird registration fee (before or on 27 April) |
Registration fee (from 28 April to 2 May) |
|---|---|---|
| PEG members | R275** | R350 |
| LAMP members* | R475 | R550 |
| Non-affiliated members | R675 | R750 |
*LAMP 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).
Please register by completing and emailing the registration form to Sharon Rose.
Deadline for registrations: 12:00 on Tuesday, 2 May.
** A special discount applied when you registered and paid for THREE Accreditation Test 2021 webinars (2021 Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) in advance in one transaction. If you register only for this Part 3 webinar, the fees in the table above apply.
Cancellation policy
If members are unable to attend this webinar after having registered and paid for it, a full refund is possible if cancellations are received by Sharon Rose by no later than 12:00 on Tuesday, 2 May. Once the final number of attendees has been confirmed on the eve of the webinar, no refunds are possible.
In addition, should you be prevented from participating in full or in part on the day of the webinar owing to Eskom loadshedding, you will be entitled to take either the same webinar or another on the 2023 webinar programme. When this occurs, the onus will be on you to inform the webinar coordinator of your disqualification on this ground and to specify which alternative webinar you would like to transfer your registration to.
Remember, though, that as a would-be or part-participant on the day, you will in any event receive the audio recording of the entire event plus PDFs of the PPT slides.
Use the early-bird special: save money and secure your spot at this webinar by registering early!