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
