[Editors] FW: Improve your editing without breaking your budget

[Stephanie Schorow]

I don't know about that program but MediaBistro mediabistro.com is a  
good organization for taking classes on a range of writing/editing/ 
media issues.
Stephanie

On Feb 20, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Amanda Berlin wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I wanted to ask about this at Tuesday’s editors meeting but  
> unfortunately I couldn’t make it. Is anyone familiar with this  
> program (see below), or is anyone interested in signing up? I would  
> love to improve my copyediting skills and thought this might be good— 
> although I don’t know anything about the quality of the group  
> putting it on.
>
> OR do you have any other suggestions for copyediting classes?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amanda
>
> Amanda Berlin
> Development Coordinator
> MIT School of Science
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> aberlin at mit.edu
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> WISH YOU COULD AFFORD TRAINING IN 2009? YOU CAN.
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> Introducing the newest training opportunity from Copyediting: a half- 
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> bureaucratese without taking the life out of it or making people  
> sound as if they aren’t knowledgeable members of their own  
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> In the first three sessions of the webinar, you will learn  
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