Philip Vassallo, Ed.D.
Phone: 732-721-7577 w Fax: 732-727-7491
E-mail: Vassallo@aol.com w Internet: www.PhilVassallo.com
Revising, Editing, and Proofreading
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Audience
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Administrative and technical staff responsible for creating or rewriting documents that demand perfection
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Duration
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Two days
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Description
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This interactive program relies on team exercises designed to build revising, editing, and proofreading skills. Participants will have numerous opportunities to sharpen the organization, sentence structure, grammar, word usage, punctuation, mechanics, and visual appeal of their own and practice documents.
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Scope
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· Employ the Protect Your REP formula when reviewing documents
· Review strategies for proper placement of content
· Layout text to support the reader’s need to scan the document
· Edit for sentence structure, grammar, and word usage
· Check for all punctuation marks, capitalization, and abbreviation
· Polish documents by searching for what everyone else missed
· Receive individual, confidential feedback of revising, editing, and proofreading skills—summarizing strengths and challenges
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Materials
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· Revising, Editing, and Proofreading course manual
· The Art of On-the-Job Writing by Philip Vassallo
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Enrollment
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Limited to 12 participants
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Consultant
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Philip Vassallo, Ed.D.
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Assessment
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Pre-course customized 4S Writing assessments of participant-submitted samples (add one-half consulting day)
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