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Introductory course for Reviewers (SES/PES)
Day 1
Let's get started
Additional information
Our services
Formatting
After-sales services
Editing in Word
Internal CACTUS requirements
Pop quiz
How to edit
Practice edit (500 words, no LFTE, no formatting)
Additional reading
Day 2
Letter from the Editor
Standard Editing Services
Proofreading, spellcheck, and ctrl+F checks
Quick Tip: Guidelines and database
Style sheet, conventions in statistics, expressing SI unit names and symbols
Practice edit (1000 words, LFTE, no formatting, 4 h)
Day 3
Avoiding unnecessary changes
Ensuring technical accuracy
Googling effectively
Keyboard shortcuts
Equations: General guidelines
Writing comments
Formatting and word count reduction
Scope of Formatting under SES, PES, and PES Plus
Checklist for formatting
Formatting exercise (approx. 4000 words)
Template formatting
Template formatting exercise (4000 words)
Day 4
Covering letter guidelines
Quality Index
Quiz
Reviewing
Screening jobs before reviews
Review process for beginner edits under Standard Editing
Using a compare merge
Checklist for Standard Editing Service
Practice review (1000 words, SES, with LFTE, beginner-level check)
Day 5
Giving QI and QI comments
Using QI recommender
Providing effective feedback
QI Quizzes
Review (2500 words, SES, with LFTE, beginner-level check, with instruction to draft QI)
Day 6
Style guides: APA, MLA, ACS, and AMA
Line-by-line review process
Editing translation assignments
Review Level 2 Translation edit (2500 words, non-beginner LBL review, with instruction to draft QI)
Day 7
Reviewing with ahkJobUtil
Review process for non-beginners under Standard Editing
Review (3000 words, non-beginner sampling review, formatting, with instruction to draft QI)
Editing LaTeX files
Reviewing LaTeX files
Review LaTeX assignment (over 1000 words, non-beginner LBL, with instruction to draft QI)
Day 8
Premium Editing Services (PES and PES Plus)
Ensuring Flow of Sentences and Paragraphs under PES (Topic Sentences and Order and Relevance of Ideas)
Beginner reviews under PES
Checklist for Premium Editing Service
Practice PES review (2000 words, PES, beginner, formatting, with instruction to draft QI)
Day 9
Non-beginner PES review
Review (over 4000 words, PES, non-beginner, formatting, with instruction to draft QI)
Multiple Round Edits (MREs) and Client Questions (CQs)
PES MRE review (with RLC)
Day 10
2 reviews (non-beginner LBL)
Day 11
2 reviews (non-beginner LBL)
Day 12
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
Subject-specific reading
Day 13
My Report
Avoiding a deadline breach
Before you begin Phase 2
Process checklist for live jobs
Guidelines for quality re-edits
Review process for quality re-edits and trial jobs
Process for CD jobs and CD audits
Reviewing "Abstract–Cover Letter Dev" assignments
Subject-specific reading
CRM guide for reviewers
Assistive Editing assignments
Practice exercise (250 words, Assistive editing review)
Review process for quality re-edits and trial jobs
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