Workshop of Text Editing

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Workshop participants adopt standards and procedures and the skills of editing. They are introduced to convincing working tools, processes and examples of good work in all phases of editing preparations from proofreader's appraisal of a text to its language style editing to the final correction. Students are acquainted with the citation etiquette issues in academic environments, anti-plaigairism systems and citation management software. The acquired skills are applied in practice in editing a text whose „border“ considerations present, for editing, a high standard challenge and balances on the border of prosaic and professional text.

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Workshop

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

A familiarity with biographic dates of:

Bohuslav Balbín

Tomáš Pešina z Čechorodu

Petr Brandl

Václav Vavřinec Reiner

Matyáš Bernard Braun

František Maxmilián Brokof

Josef Herscher

Jan Blažej Santini

Anastasius Kircher

Course contents:

Methodology workshop presenting applied standards (particularly international citation standards ISO 690 and ISO 690-2) and normal use variations (ex: NAMU editing practices) citation standards in Czech editing and editing processes. Students, based on editing preparations of manuscripts systemize and consolidate their skill enabling profession editing work.

Recommended or required reading:

ISO 690:2011

Assessment methods and criteria:

Appraisal of a presented manuscript through instructor evaluation. A proposal for an instruction of unitary notation devices and bibliographic references (approx. 950 items), selection of possible editting solutions and their rationale, implementation of editting and final correction.

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