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PEG Accreditation Test 2022 Part 1: Grammar question, Editing question 2A and general question 4A

Join PEG for a webinar on the PEG accreditation test 2022 as preparation for sitting the 2024 test or simply as a means to honing your knowledge and skills and earning valuable CPD hours.

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: Tuesday, 9 April 2024

Time: 09:30–13:00

Place: Online (Zoom meeting)

Facilitator: Cathy Robertson (with co-examiner John Linnegar)

Pre-webinar materials: The 2022 Language/Grammar, Editing and General questions will be sent upon registration; or bring your 2022 test answers along.

CPD hours: You will qualify for 3,5 hours of core CPD when you attend this webinar and only 40 minutes of discretionary CPD if you listen to the recording only without proof of attendance.

About our facilitator

Besides working for Avis and Anglo American, Cathy Robertson has spent many years teaching English at high school level and at a teachers’ training college and even more years involved with skills development. She’s written learning materials as well as publishing in academia. She spent many years as examiner and moderator for Umalusi (DHET’s quality assurance body for examinations) and was responsible for writing their national report on internal assessment. Today, she is the managing editor of an academic journal, JOVACET (Journal of Vocational, Adult and Continuing Education and Training), is a research associate at Stellenbosch University and enjoys editing various forms of academic writing. She has been a member of PEG for almost ten years where she mentors academic writers and sets and marks parts of the ATE accreditation test. Her study fields include linguistics (Master’s degree cum laude) and Curriculum Studies (PhD). 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, a Lifetime Achiever award from the Western Cape Education Department, PEG’s Derrick Hurlin award for Excellence in Mentoring and PEG’s Volunteer of the Year..

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 vehicles for achieving this purpose will be the questions on language/grammar and question 2A, on structural, content, stylistic and copy editing, and general question 4A, in PEG’s 2022 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 2022 test should bring their completed tests to the webinar 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 will be covered in Part 2 on 24 April. Editing question 2C and the proofreading questions will be covered in Part 3 on 16 May.

Cost

Affiliation Early-bird fee for Part 1 only
(before or on 2 April)
Full fee for Part 1 only
(from 3 to 6 April)
PEG members R295* R380
LAMP members* R495 R580
Non-affiliated members R695 R780

*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).

* A special discount applies when you register and pay for THREE Accreditation Test 2022 webinars (2022 Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) in advance in one early-bird registration transaction.

Instead of 3 x R295 = R885 (or 3 x R380 = R1 140), you will receive a discount of R175, which means you will pay only R710 for these THREE webinars. This discount applies only to PEG members. This means that when you register for Part 1 of the Accreditation Test 2022 webinar, and qualify for the discount, you will then obtain the discount for all THREE 2022 Accreditation Test webinars if you register and pay for all three at the same time. Registration for the individual webinars separately 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 8 April.

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 noon on 8 April. 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 2024 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!

9 April, 2024 @ 09:30 - 13:00 Africa/Johannesburg at Online (Zoom) by PEG | Accreditation First Quarter Webinar Zoom

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