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PEG Accreditation Test 2021 – Part 3: Question 2B (academic) and General Questions 4B and 4C

Accreditation Test 2021 Part 2: Question 2B (academic) and General Questions 4B and 4C

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, 4 September 2024

Time: 09:30 to 13:00

Place: Online (Zoom meeting)

Facilitators: Co-examiners Sally Hofmeyr and 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

Sally Hofmeyr started out studying ecology, ornithology and conservation, and although she went as far as obtaining a PhD and completing two postdoctoral fellowships, she was never convinced that academia was the right place for her. Between postdocs, she started doing freelance academic editing for a small online company (Uni-edit) as a way of bringing in some extra money while she worked out what to do next. By the time the second postdoc came to an end, she had finally found her niche: editing! Since 2016, Sally has been a senior editor for Uni-edit, and in this role she edits, provides training and feedback to editors and translators, and participates in other aspects of running the business. The editing work she does is primarily editing academic articles in the biological sciences that are written by non-native speakers of English or translated into English in-house. She is keen on broadening her horizons, and to this end has completed several courses in editing and related subjects, and has attended many PEG seminars and webinars. She has also done some editing of educational material (SA high school science) and has recently begun to take on book proofreading projects for a local publisher. She still keeps a toe in the waters of real-life academia by helping with ornithological fieldwork from time to time, which provides a welcome break from the computer. Sally has been a member of PEG since late 2017, and in 2020 she qualified as an Accredited Text Editor (English) and joined the PEG Exco as secretary and the Accreditation Test examiner team in 2021.

Trained as a secondary school teacher, John Linnegar has been active in the publishing industry for more than 40 years, as writer, editor, proofreader, technical writer, industrial editor and publisher. He cut his editorial teeth as an editor of texts for one of South Africa’s foremost law publishers and played a leading role in formalising its House style for authors and editors. He has also edited and proofread numerous school and academic textbooks and articles, for both local and international publishers.

The confluence of teaching and editing was almost inevitable. In 2000 he ran his first course in copy editing and proofreading for PASA’s Publishing Training Project. John has since presented basic and advanced editing and English grammar courses in various forms both publicly and for local publishers, for several provincial legislatures and at a number of our universities.

In 2009 he published the best-selling Engleish, our Engleish: Common errors in South African English and how to resolve them (Pharos; rev ed 2013). In 2012, a standard text he co-authored with professors Wannie Carstens and Kris Van de Poel – Text editing: A handbook for students and practitioners (ASP Editions, Brussels) – was published, a text that has been well received internationally. He has also co-authored several PEG guides: on house style; the business of editing, and marketing freelance editorial services. His latest publication (with Ken McGillivray, 2019) is grammar, punctuation and all that jazz (MLA Publishing), which is aimed at any wordsmith whose use of English needs polishing through familarisation with the essentials of usage. Besides grammar, he specialises in developing house style guidelines and converting texts to Plain Language/English.

John is an Accredited Professional Text Editor (SATI), an ATE (English), a life member and a past chair of PEG, until 2022 an executive member of the Society of English-language Professionals in the Netherlands (SENSE), and a member of the Nordic Editors and Translators (NEaT) and the Canberra Society of Editors (CSE), Australia.

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 the academic text in question 2B, on general questions 4B and 4C in PEG’s 2021 test, and some input on the differences between structural, stylistic and copy editing. 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 28 August

2Between 29 August and 2 September

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).

* PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU HAVE REGISTERED AND PAID FOR THE THREE-PART SERIES, YOU DO NOT NEED TO RE-REGISTER FOR PART 3. AND THE PRE-WEBINAR READING WILL BE SENT TO YOU AHEAD OF THE WEBINAR.

Please register by completing and emailing the registration form.

Deadline for registrations: 12:00 on Monday 2 September.

4 September, 2024 @ 09:30 - 13:00 Africa/Johannesburg at Online (Zoom) by PEG | Accreditation Third quarter Webinar Zoom

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