Here are the replays of The Art of Copyediting one-to-one mentoring sessions with you. The dates of the sessions and topics discussed are mentioned for your convenience. Hope you enjoy these!

Session 1 (4 Jan 2023)

Getting to know each other; FSEE opening thoughts and guidelines; program timelines

Session 2 (6 Jan 2023)

Reiteration of basic sentence components, linking, verb, clauses, phrases; discussion of Rule 1 (apostrophe); Grimes sisters murder case

Session 3 (9 Jan 2023)

Exercise on apostrophe; reiteration categories; plural possessive vs. collective possessive; various ways of referring to individual capacity

Session 4 (11 Jan 2023)

Continuation of discussion; singular, plural, and collective forms; adjectival and possessive forms; mixed ideas in possessive forms

Session 5 (13 Jan 2023)

Simple, complex, compound sentences; serial comma, meaning changes; Rule 4 review: the questioning method, rule of meaning, linking verbs

Session 6 (17 Jan 2023)

Workflow for sentence editing; editing sentences without punctuation; learning to read a sentence; article use; applying Rules 5, 7, 9, 12

Session 7 (19 Jan 2023)

Continuation of editing sentences; reiteration of concepts in Rule 7 (comma after intro) and Rule 9 (compound sentence with one subject)

Session 8 (23 Jan 2023)

Overview of SP-1; reiterations: rule of meaning (s–v), run-on sentence, conditions for semicolon, levels of editing, parallelism on either side

Session 9 (25 Jan 2023)

Word usage issues (incorrect adjectives and prepositions); thesaurus; prepositions in Rule 12; sentence modifiers; such as a restrictive element

Session 10a (30 Jan 2023)

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Session 10b (30 Jan 2023)

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Session 10c (30 Jan 2023)

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Session 10d (30 Jan 2023)

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Session 11 (31 Jan 2023)

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Session 12 (3 Feb 2023)

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Session 13 (6 Feb 2023)

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Session 14 (8 Feb 2023)

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Session 15 (10 Feb 2023)

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Session 16 (14 Feb 2023)

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Session 17 (16 Feb 2023)

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Session 18 (20 Feb 2023)

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Session 19 (22 Feb 2023)

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Session 20 (28 Feb 2023)

Reviewing color-coding attempt; understanding verbs, lurking restrictive elements; adverb then; intro and main as parallel constructs

Session 21 (2 Mar 2023)

Reviewing parallelism in terms of structure and color-coding; understanding what follows the colon in terms of color-coding

Session 22 (6 Mar 2023)

Color-coding of sentences of SP1 Type 5f pattern: restrictive elements having 1, 2, and 3 prepositional phrases

Session 23 (10 Mar 2023)

Discussing sentences from her magazine collection

Session 24 (16 Mar 2023)

Reviewing the color-coding exercise

Session 25 (29 Mar 2023)

FSEE closing thoughts, list of downloads, should I be a writer or editor?