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 (17 Aug 2022)

General discussions, getting to know each other; explaining the four sliders on The Art of Copyediting website

Session 2 (23 Aug 2022)

Sentence components, verbs/linking verbs, clauses/phrases; review of Rules 1 and 2; simple complex, and compound sentences

Session 3 (26 Aug 2022)

Discussion of sentences with apostrophe; understanding and application of the various categories in Rule 1

Session 4 (29 Aug 2022)

Review of Rule 5; flowchart for editing; analyzing punctuationless sentences: understanding functional components; not only/but also

Session 5 (31 Aug 2022)

Analyzing punctuationless sentences (continuation); applying Rule 5; understanding catchwords; learned some aspects of Rule 9 and Rule 12

Session 6 (6 Sep 2022)

Review of the exercise on apostrophe; singular and plural possessives, generic expressions; identifying categories correctly

Session 7 (9 Sep 2022)

Detailed review of Rule 7 (Introductory elements); summarizing comma use with Rules 3, 5, and 7 (and simply 5 in particular)

Session 8 (12 Sep 2022)

Recognizing expletive construction; learning to apply various rules (4, 9, 8, and 12) in a single sentence

Session 9 (14 Sep 2022)

Windows and word shortcuts; structural patterns having expletive constructions; understand Rule 5 a little more

Session 10 (19 Sep 2022) 

Review of SP1 patterns; exercise to understand nonrestrictive/restrictive elements and categorization according to SP1 patterns

Session 11 (20 Sep 2022)

Analyses and categorization of sentences according to SP1 patterns

Session 12 (22 Sep 2022)

Analyses and categorization of sentences according to SP1 patterns

Session 13 (28 Sep 2022)

Run-through of SP-2 patterns and their connections; continuation of sentence analysis, but with color-coding

Session 14 (4 Oct 2022)

Parts of speech; overview of Course 4; sentence component analysis and identification of patterns according to SP1 and SP2 (cont'd)

Session 15 (6 Oct 2022)

Adding Word template with shortcuts for sentence components; Word document Status Bar options; next document for color-coding exercise

Session 16 (10 Oct 2022)

Continuation of color-coding; using a dictionary; understanding connections between Rule 9 and Rule 7

Session 17 (12 Oct 2022)

Understanding restrictive elements and identifying restrictive patterns correctly; how reading helps understand incorrect structural patterns

Session 18 (18 Oct 2022)

To be held