Editing Your Own Work – Part 1
Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG
Content
Welcome
45s
About BCG
7m 27s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 24s
Introduction
16m 22s
Start with a Focus
3m 28s
Title
9m 10s
Writing Rough
3m 21s
Add to Draft
1m 55s
Revise
2m 59s
Proofreading
1m 34s
Vetting
49s
Submitting
4m 39s
Structure
18m 58s
Announcements
1m 47s
Questions / answers
12m 33s
About this webinar
Genealogists write. Their written narratives include stories of ancestral families, biographies of individual ancestors, and explanations supporting genealogical proofs. For their writing to succeed, genealogists—like all effective writers—repeatedly self-edit everything they write. The process results in polished products that the genealogist’s readers will understand, enjoy, and cherish.
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\nEmphasizing genealogical narrative, these two webinars will addresses the self-editing process. Part 1 will focus on “big-picture” editing, including stages of self-editing; focus; keeping the writer out of the narrative; editing the writing’s overall structure, organization, and flow; and improving major and minor subdivisions of written genealogical narratives, including paragraphing. Part 2 will focus on “nitty-gritty” editing, including capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure, spelling, word choice, and reducing word count.
About the speaker
Tom Jones is an award-winning genealogical researcher, writer, editor, and educator. He co-edited the National Genealogical Society Quarterly in 2003 through 2018, and he is the author of the textbook...
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Comments (60)
This was a great webinar. I liked that the speaker didn't race through the presentation, and spoke slowly enough that we could absorb what he was saying and take notes where necessary. Also his use of examples was great too. Respectfully, other presenters could learn from him.
Tom gave a lot of very practical advice with plenty of examples. This will definitely influence my writing!
Thank you for an outstanding presentation packed with recommendations for how to write clearly. I am looking forward to part 2.
One of the best that I've heard.
Lots of great knowledge shared.
Tom provided a thoroughly interesting presentation , and was fully on-topic.
Gives a writer a lot to consider. It may mean I need to do a major re-write of my book. Sigh.
Outstanding, great material and well presented. Thank you.