Course description
Every project comes with questions and anomalies. This course teaches you how to ask your author about the problems you’ve identified, and do so tactfully and efficiently.
Anyone whose work involves editing, proofreading, indexing, dealing with writers or managing a publishing project will benefit from taking this course, especially if you already have a little experience.
The course takes around 30 hours of self-directed study time, and there’s up to an hour of support from a tutor should you need it.
The Art of Querying will help you to:
- define what, when and how to ask (and what not to!)
- formulate a tool with standard questions and effective wording
- offer guidance on procedure, timing and technical issues
- build a reputation as an editor who communicates effectively
- query narrative, tables, graphs and pictures
- develop strong working relationships
Each unit includes study notes, exercises, commentary, and examples and model answers where appropriate, plus end-of-unit quizzes to test your knowledge.
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Before you start
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Unit 1: Questions and answers
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Unit 2: Approaches
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- 2 APPROACHES: INTRODUCTION
- 2.1 HOW TO START
- Exercise 4: Follow the code
- Exercise 4: How did you get on?
- 2.2 IT LOOKS FUNNY
- Exercise 5: Funny peculiar
- Exercise 5: How did you get on?
- 2.3 FORMULATING QUERIES
- Exercise 6: That's a good question
- Exercise 6: How did you get on?
- 2.4 FORMULATING NOTES
- Exercise 7: It's hard to tell
- Exercise 7: How did you get on?
- 2.5 SIX RULES
- Exercise 8: Is it broken?
- Exercise 8: How did you get on?
- Unit 2 quiz
Unit 3: Topics
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- 3 TOPICS: INTRODUCTION
- 3.1 INCONSISTENCY
- Exercise 9: The consistency of cold custard
- Exercise 9: How did you get on?
- 3.2 AMBIGUITY
- Exercise 10: In the beginning
- Exercise 10: How did you get on?
- 3.3 OMISSION
- Exercise 11: What will they ask?
- Exercise 11: How did you get on?
- 3.4 ERROR – WHAT ERROR?
- Exercise 12: Of course I could be wrong
- Exercise 12: How did you get on?
- Unit 3 quiz
Unit 4: Content
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- 4 CONTENT: INTRODUCTION
- 4.1 PRELIMS
- Exercise 13: Prelims
- Exercise 13: How did you get on?
- 4.2 NARRATIVE AND ARGUMENT
- Exercise 14: Every sentence tells a story
- Exercise 14: How did you get on?
- 4.3 VOCABULARY AND TERMINOLOGY
- Exercise 15: Tools of the trade
- Exercise 15: How did you get on?
- 4.4 REFERENCES
- Exercise 16: References
- Exercise 16: How did you get on?
- 4.5 TABLES
- Exercise 17: Two times table
- Exercise 17: How did you get on?
- 4.6 ARTWORK
- Exercise 18: As we can see
- Exercise 18: How did you get on?
- 4.7 SIX LAST THINGS
- Exercise 19: Any questions?
- Exercise 19: How did you get on?
- Unit 4 quiz
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