Overview of the talk I gave at the CIEP Conference 2024

26/9/2024

Overview of the talk I gave at the CIEP Conference 2024

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The Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading annual conference is one of the highlights of my editing year. This year was no exception, but it was a bit more nervewracking than usual as this year I was one of the speakers. Lydia Wanstall and I gave a presentation – Working with UN agencies and NGOs – on our experiences with working with the World Health Organization, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and other such agencies.

What did we talk about?

We started off by giving a general overview of the organizations who we edit for, what their roles are and the kinds of publications they produce. We went on to give a little bit of background on our personal editing journeys with these organizations, before describing the kinds of documents that we have been sent to work on, and also what tasks we're asked to carry out on these documents.

Then we talked about the way these organizations tend to work, and their communication styles, before describing in a little bit more detail some of the common issues that we have encountered editing this type of text, which is often written by teams of authors, many of whom are multilingual.

Editing exercises

Lydia organized some handout with examples of some interesting edits that she had been involved in and the audience – both in the room and online – were able to look through those and point out some of the issues involved in each piece of work, and we talked about how we'd deal with these issues and what additional information we might need from the client, and if there was anything else that the client might need to consider in the process of producing each document.

A whirlwind look at Word tools!

To finish with, I gave a whirlwind tour of some of the tools that makes this type of editing easier, including PerfectIt, macros, Word styles, Words automatic numbering facility and using EndNote to help with styling references.

wHERE CAN i FIND OUT MORE?

I've written blogs on some of these topics, and there will be more posts to follow. Here is a list of my blog posts that are currently available for those of you who are interested:

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Andrea at Yours Truleigh Editing.
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