Editing Your Own Work – Part 2
Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG
Content
Welcome
54s
About BCG
6m 6s
Speaker's Introduction
53s
Introduction
1m 28s
Reducing Word Count
29m 4s
Edit Yourself
7m 32s
Punctuation
15m 54s
Sentence Structure and Spelling
4m 36s
Conclusion
3m 58s
Announcements
1m 25s
Questions / answers
12m 28s
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 address 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 (105)
precise and to the point. Exactly what we needed.
Very well organized and speaker was very knowledgeable.
As a former English teacher it is good to brush up on writing rules. Thanks. Superb.
Tom gave lots of great advice! The handout is very helpful too.
Nice refresher for those of us who have been out of school for many years. I still think that having 2 spaces between sentences is better because it visually helps a reader see that a sentence is ending and another one is starting. Otherwise, two sentences separated only by a single space can appear to be one and could cause the reader to need to re-read what was written--especially true for fast readers. (I hope the "usage pendulum" will swing back and acknowledge this issue.)
Very clear speaking
Excellent refresher, and even a few points that were new to me.
Important material and easy to understand