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Description: Our greatest fear as editors is to miss something: a typo, wrong formatting, factual errors, awkward language. Learn how using a checklist for common editing tasks can help you speed up your editing, catch the usual errors, and stop second-guessing yourself! Checklists are especially helpful for those who get interrupted often or have requirements that are constantly in flux. As an added bonus, in editing teams, checklists can be used to ensure consistency across editors and allow a more consistent experience for authors who work with them.

Come to this webinar to learn how using a comprehensive checklist created and updated for a specific editing task can help you differentiate workflows, systems, and activities; spell out style and formatting details, track your progress, document metrics, and give you a sense of completion and peace of mind.

If you use editing checklists, this session will help you take them to the next level; if you don’t use them, this session will offer the knowledge and motivation you need to get started.

Speaker:

Kelly Schrank, MA, ELS
Bookworm Editing Services

Kelly Schrank, MA, ELS, has been a technical editor for almost 30 years. She has been a medical editor in the pharmaceutical industry for the last 15 years, and though she has a full-time job currently, she continues to freelance through her business, Bookworm Editing Services. Kelly is a BELS-certified Editor in the Life Sciences and an Associate Fellow of STC. She has presented on checklists, editing, infographics, Microsoft products, side gigs, and networking in webinars and at conferences.