One-to-One Mentoring Sessions With Sarah

 

Reliving the live sessions

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 (16 Aug 2022)

Sentence components, verbs, linking verbs, clauses, phrases, apostrophe categories, discussion of apostrophe sentences

Session 2 (18 Aug 2022)

Discussion of sentences with apostrophe; understanding/application of the categories in Rule 1; status bar and track changes settings in Word

 
 
Session 3 (22 Aug 2022)

Review of Rule 2 (avoiding fragments) and Rule 3 (serial comma); punctuationless sentences

Session 4 (24 Aug 2022)

Review of Rule 4 (subject–verb agreement) and its subcategories; understanding expletives

 
 
Session 5 (26 Aug 2022)

Review of Rule 5; flowchart for editing; analyzing punctuationless sentences: understanding functional components

Session 6 (5 Sep 2022)

Review of Rule 5 (cont'd) and Rule 6 (Keep related words together); understanding functional components of punctuationless sentences

 
 
Session 7 (7 Sep 2022)

Review of exercise on apostrophe; review of Rule 7 (Introductory constructions)

Session 8 (9 Sep 2022)

Review of Rule 9 (joining independent clauses); analyzing punctuationless sentences (cont'd)

 
 
Session 9 (14 Sep 2022)

Analyzing punctuationless sentences; applying principles; using Merriam Webster and Oxford Advanced Learner's dictionaries and thesaurus

Session 10 (16 Sep 2022)

Analyzing punctuationless sentences (cont'd); editing flowchart; understanding functional components and structural patterns

 
 
Session 11 (19 Sep 2022)

Review of Sentence Patterns-1; fresh set of sentences for understanding Rule 5 better; understanding components and principles used

Session 12 (23 Sep 2022)

Analyzes and identification of sentence components; identifying structural patterns using SP-1 chart

 
 
Session 13 (27 Sep 2022)

Continuation of sentence analyses; understanding defining elements, using color-coding to identify functional components

Session 14 (29 Sep 2022)

Overview of SP-2 sentence patterns; analyses and identification of sentence components (cont'd) with color-coding

 
 
Session 15 (3 Oct 2022)

Sentence component analyses and identification (cont'd); attribution (SP-2 Type 11a and SP-1 Types 5a–c)

Session 16 (7 Oct 2022)

Overview of course 4; continuation of sentence component analysis and identification of structural patterns according to SP1 and SP2

 
 
Session 17 (17 Oct 2022)

Review of sentence component identification exercise

Session 18 (xx Oct 2022)


Not held

 
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