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Introductory course for Quality Checkers
Day 1
Let's get started
Additional information
Our services
Formatting
After-sales services
Editing in Word and internal CACTUS requirements (9:08)
How to edit (3:24)
Practice edit (500 words, no LFTE, no formatting)
Letter from the Editor
Standard Editing Services
Quick Tip: Guidelines and database
Style sheet, conventions in statistics, expressing SI unit names and symbols
Writing comments (7:02)
Pop quiz
Day 2
Scope of quality assurance checks
Proofreading, spellcheck, and ctrl+F checks (6:17)
Screening jobs before reviews
Step-by-step checks for reviews under Standard Editing
Practice review (1000 words, SES, with LFTE)
Avoiding unnecessary changes
Ensuring technical accuracy
Googling effectively
Keyboard shortcuts (11:26)
Equations: General guidelines
Using a compare merge
Day 3
Review (2000 words, SES, with LFTE)
Formatting and word count reduction (22:54)
Scope of Formatting under SES, PES, and PES Plus
Formatting exercise (approx. 4000 words)
Template formatting (8:39)
Template formatting exercise (4000 words)
Style guides: APA, MLA, ACS, and AMA
Day 4
Quality Index
Giving QI and QI comments
Using QI recommender
Reviewing translation assignments
Review Level 2 Translation edit (2500 words, beginner-level check, with instruction to draft QI)
Reviewing LaTeX files
Review LaTeX assignment (over 2000 words, non-beginner, with instruction to draft QI)
Writing comments for translation assignments
Quiz
Day 5
Premium Editing Services (PES and PES Plus) (12:57)
Ensuring Flow of Sentences and Paragraphs under PES (Topic Sentences and Order and Relevance of Ideas)
Covering letter guidelines
Step-by-step checks under PES
PES review (3000 words, PES, formatting, with instruction to draft QI)
Reviewing with ahkJobUtil
Review (2500 words, SES, with LFTE, beginner-level check, with instruction to draft QI)
Multiple Round Edits (MREs) and Client Questions (CQs) (11:29)
Further reading: PES
Readability in scientific writing
Day 6
4 reviews (2 beginner and 2 non-beginner, mix of formatting and no-formatting
Editing SoPs
Conventions in linguistics
Terminology in language teaching
Flagging ethical misconduct
Troubleshooting
Editing non-academic documents
Editing "accepted" manuscripts
Useful resources
Editing content in PowerPoint and Excel files
Editing PDF files
Orientation to corporate clients
Abstract writing
My Report
Avoiding a deadline breach
Before you begin Phase 2
Process checklist for live jobs
Guidelines for quality re-edits
CRM guide for reviewers
Merops
Quiz: Process test for reviewers
Ensuring Flow of Sentences and Paragraphs under PES (Topic Sentences and Order and Relevance of Ideas)
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