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[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Browse All (about an hour each)

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
Best Electronic and Print Resources for Copyeditors	01:18	Audio	Yes
Client Management and Self-Marketing for Freelancers	01:19	Audio	Yes
Common Problems in Editing Nonfiction	01:06	Audio	Yes
Common Problems in Medical Editing	01:12	Audio	Yes
Common Problems in Science Editing	01:10	Audio	Yes
Common Problems in Technical Editing	01:15	Audio	Yes
Copyediting Text for an International Audience	01:17	Audio	Yes
Copyright, Permissions, Plagiarism, & Trademarks: What Should Copyeditors Know?	01:20	Audio	Yes
Editing Content for the Web	01:19	Audio	Yes
Editing in InCopy	01:18	Video	Yes
Getting Started as a Freelance Editor	01:19	Audio	Yes
Getting Your Facts Straight	01:19	Audio	Yes
Grammar Bugbears 1: Modifiers and Prepositions	01:14	Audio	Yes
Grammar Bugbears 2: Verbs and Conjunctions	01:14	Audio	Yes
Grammar Bugbears 3: Nouns, Pronouns, Antecedents	01:14	Audio	Yes
How to Create a House Style Guide	00:58	Audio	Yes
How to Edit-Not Wreck-Advertising and Marketing Copy	01:18	Audio	Yes
Math Errors: Can You Fix Them?	01:10	Audio	Yes
Open or Strict Editorial Style? Striking the Right Balance	01:14	Audio	Yes
Punctuation Bugbears 1: Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, and Hyphens	01:18	Audio	Yes
Punctuation Bugbears 2: Commas/Possessives	01:19	Audio	Yes
Punctuation Bugbears 3: All About Quoting	01:12	Audio	Yes
Punctuation Bugbears 4: Capitalization/Trademarks	01:17	Audio	Yes
Streamline Your Editing with Word Macros	01:02	Audio	Yes
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed.	00:58	Audio	Yes
The Savvy Editorial Resource User	01:01	Video	Yes
The Subversive Copy Editor Takes Your Questions	01:20	Audio	Yes
Things Your English Teacher Didn't Tell You	01:19	Audio	Yes
Update Your Editorial Style	01:16	Audio	Yes
What's New in the AMA Manual of Style, 10th Edition	01:17	Audio	Yes
When You're On Deadline: Editorial Triage	01:13	Audio	Yes
You're The Editor�When It's OK to Futz with Reality	01:09	Audio	Yes

[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Editing specific types of content

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
Common Problems in Editing Nonfiction	01:06	Audio	Yes
Common Problems in Medical Editing	01:12	Audio	Yes
Common Problems in Science Editing	01:10	Audio	Yes
Common Problems in Technical Editing	01:15	Audio	Yes
Copyediting Text for an International Audience	01:17	Audio	Yes
How to Edit-Not Wreck-Advertising and Marketing Copy	01:18	Audio	Yes
Math Errors: Can You Fix Them?	01:10	Audio	Yes

[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Editorial methods

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
Copyright, Permissions, Plagiarism, & Trademarks: What Should Copyeditors Know?	01:20	Audio	Yes
Getting Your Facts Straight	01:19	Audio	Yes
The Subversive Copy Editor Takes Your Questions	01:20	Audio	Yes
When You're On Deadline: Editorial Triage	01:13	Audio	Yes
You're The Editor�When It's OK to Futz with Reality	01:09	Audio	Yes

[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Electronic resources and editing

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
Best Electronic and Print Resources for Copyeditors	01:18	Audio	Yes
Editing Content for the Web	01:19	Audio	Yes
Editing in InCopy	01:18	Video	Yes
Streamline Your Editing with Word Macros	01:02	Audio	Yes
The Savvy Editorial Resource User	01:01	Video	Yes

[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Freelancing

	Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
	Client Management and Self-Marketing for Freelancers	01:19	Audio	Yes
	Getting Started as a Freelance Editor	01:19	Audio	Yes

[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Grammar

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
Grammar Bugbears 1: Modifiers and Prepositions	01:14	Audio	Yes
Grammar Bugbears 2: Verbs and Conjunctions	01:14	Audio	Yes
Grammar Bugbears 3: Nouns, Pronouns, Antecedents	01:14	Audio	Yes
Things Your English Teacher Didn't Tell You	01:19	Audio	Yes

[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Punctuation

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
Punctuation Bugbears 1: Colons, Semicolons, Dashes, and Hyphens	01:18	Audio	Yes
Punctuation Bugbears 2: Commas/Possessives	01:19	Audio	Yes
Punctuation Bugbears 3: All About Quoting	01:12	Audio	Yes
Punctuation Bugbears 4: Capitalization/Trademarks	01:17	Audio	Yes

[+] TRAINING SESSIONS: Style

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
How to Create a House Style Guide	00:58	Audio	Yes
Open or Strict Editorial Style? Striking the Right Balance	01:14	Audio	Yes
The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed.	00:58	Audio	Yes
Update Your Editorial Style	01:16	Audio	Yes
What's New in the AMA Manual of Style, 10th Edition	01:17	Audio	Yes

[+] PODCASTS: Browse All (two to ten minutes each)

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
CONFUSABLES 01: "Reckless," "chord," "discrete"	00:04	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 02: "Disperse," "insightful"	00:04	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 03: "Loath," "Swath"	00:03	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 04: "Pleade" vs. "Plead"	00:02	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 05: "Recur" vs. "Reoccur"	00:02	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 06: "Could of" vs. "Could have" vs. "Could've"	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 01: "With regard to"	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 02: "Historic" and "classic�	00:03	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 03: Parallel construction	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 04: �Irregardless�	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 05: Compound objects with "me�	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 06: Use �Due to� with caution	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 07: Use �a� and �an� correctly with �h�-words	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 08: Keep �ensure,� �assure,� and �insure� straight	00:08	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 09: "Disabuse," "disavow," and confusables in general	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 10: �As opposed to�	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 11: �Compare with/to�	00:03	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 12: The comma splice	00:03	Audio	No
INTERVIEW: Discussion about the style of Canadian English	00:11	Audio	No
INTERVIEW: Editing writers whose main spoken language is not English	00:10	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 01: "They"	00:04	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 02: Collective Nouns	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 03: "Between"	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 04: "The reason why"	00:05	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 05: "Is comprised of"	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 06: "Hopefully"	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 07: Split infinitives	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 08: Split multi-part verbs	00:02	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 09: Sentence-ending prepositions	00:02	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 10: Singular "none"	00:01	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 11: "Fewer" is never �less�	00:04	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 12: "More than" is never �over�	00:04	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 13: Don't use "then" as a conjunction	00:03	Audio	No

[+] PODCASTS: Confusables

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
CONFUSABLES 01: "Reckless," "chord," "discrete"	00:04	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 02: "Disperse," "insightful"	00:04	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 03: "Loath," "Swath"	00:03	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 04: "Pleade" vs. "Plead"	00:02	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 05: "Recur" vs. "Reoccur"	00:02	Audio	No
CONFUSABLES 06: "Could of" vs. "Could have" vs. "Could've"	00:04	Audio	No

[+] PODCASTS: Fiddly Rules

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
FIDDLY RULES 01: "With regard to"	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 02: "Historic" and "classic�	00:03	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 03: Parallel construction	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 04: �Irregardless�	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 05: Compound objects with "me�	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 06: Use �Due to� with caution	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 07: Use �a� and �an� correctly with �h�-words	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 08: Keep �ensure,� �assure,� and �insure� straight	00:08	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 09: "Disabuse," "disavow," and confusables in general	00:04	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 10: �As opposed to�	00:02	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 11: �Compare with/to�	00:03	Audio	No
FIDDLY RULES 12: The comma splice	00:03	Audio	No

[+] PODCASTS: Interviews

	Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
	INTERVIEW: Discussion about the style of Canadian English	00:11	Audio	No
	INTERVIEW: Editing writers whose main spoken language is not English	00:10	Audio	No

[+] PODCASTS: Stupid Rules

Title	Duration (hrs:min)	Format	Supplemental Materials
STUPID RULES 01: "They"	00:04	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 02: Collective Nouns	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 03: "Between"	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 04: "The reason why"	00:05	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 05: "Is comprised of"	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 06: "Hopefully"	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 07: Split infinitives	00:03	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 08: Split multi-part verbs	00:02	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 09: Sentence-ending prepositions	00:02	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 10: Singular "none"	00:01	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 11: "Fewer" is never �less�	00:04	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 12: "More than" is never �over�	00:04	Audio	No
STUPID RULES 13: Don't use "then" as a conjunction	00:03	Audio	No