Eight-Step Editing

with Moira White

When: Saturday, April 23 and April 30, 9:00 am to noon PDT

Where: Online via Zoom

Eight-Step Editing teaches an approach to editing that helps editors and writers alike. This lively, hands-on workshop takes highly honed skills that are second nature to professional editors and breaks them down into a sequence of eight actions that will improve and clarify the text. Everyone who has ever changed a sentence in an email or a report can benefit from this workshop, as can experienced editors wanting a quick, strategic approach to editing.

Each participant will receive a workbook full of explanations, exercises, and helpful references.

Moira White (she/her) is an Ottawa-based editor, writer, and trainer with decades of experience editing, writing, and teaching for government and corporate clients. She has taught briefing notes courses to many government departments, agencies, and corporations both in person and virtually using a variety of platforms. She has also given a series of webinars for editors.

Moira holds a master’s degree in social policy. She has managed on-site production of reports in Canada and Europe and has travelled across Canada with public consultations, writing, editing, and producing reports. Her specialties include synthesizing the work of multiple authors, writing to tight deadlines, and writing executive summaries.

She is an honorary life member and past president of Editors Canada.

Seminar Recording Notice:
Editors BC will be recording these sessions using Zoom’s record feature. The data captured may include your image (including your name if it appears in your video image) and voice recordings. The Zoom recordings will be made available to registered seminar participants for a period of two weeks following the session. After that time, the recording will no longer be available to participants. If you have any questions or concerns about the recording, please contact Claire Majors at pd1@editorsbc.ca. Session participants are not permitted to make their own recordings, by any means, and are forbidden from distributing the recording they receive from the session.