Exam

My first college exam next week.

Yikes.

Up until now, all of our assessment has involved writing, research, classwork, workshopping, team projects, excursions, and oral presentations. This exam is for my Editing subject. Apparently, there will be lots of questions on grammar, punctuation, terminology and editing marks. I'm preparing for some serious cramming this week!

And then there's all of the written assessment for term one to hand in over the next two weeks ...

Oh well: sleep is for chumps.  ;  )

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Standards

Check out the Australian Standards for Editing Practice at the Institute for Professional Editors website. Sounds like dry reading? They're really not. The Standards are a great guide to help both novice editors, like myself, as well as seasoned editors, to balance their skill-sets. They're also the essential guide to preparing for the professional accreditation scheme for editors. Speaking of which, the latest accreditation exam is being held later this year, in October 2012. See the link below for information.

http://iped-editors.org/Editing_standards.aspx

http://www.editorsvictoria.org/professional-development/accreditation