“Building Your Toolkit as a VURJ Copy Editor” Workshop Resource Page
The Writing Studio is excited to have you participating in one of our online writing workshops. This page is intended for participants in such workshops, giving them access to the writing samples at the heart of our workshop as web text as well as via a downloadable PDF.
Although copy editing and proofreading are distinct activities, this workshop draws inspiration and process-oriented recommendations from the following web resources: Proofreading Tips (Vanderbilt Writing Studio), Editing and Proofreading (UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center), and Proofreading (UW-Madison Writing Center).
Link to Workshop GoogleDoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13YX-HSjrbdr7uCfZpw2E3XSbAYe4BZCTaqET73Gbk3E/edit?usp=sharing
Copy Editing Resource Links
Citations
General Resources
- VU Library Style Guides for Citing Sources
- An all-purpose starting place for guides to citation styles and conventions: APA, Chicago, CSE (Council of Science Editors), Turabian, and MLA.
APA Citations and Style
- VU Library: APA for Peabody Students
- APAStyle.APA.org Resources
Punctuation, Grammar, and More
- Twelve Common Errors (UW-Madison Writing Center)
- Using Coordinating Conjunctions (UW-Madison Writing Center)
- That vs. Which (Purdue OWL)
- Using Commas: Non-restrictive vs. Restrictive Modifiers (UW-Madison Writing Center)
- Extended Rules for Using Commas (Purdue OWL)
Word Choice and Idiomatic Usage
Think you see a word choice that isn’t quite right? When in doubt, look it up!
- Cambridge English Dictionary (includes examples of usage)
- Find an example: For more academic language particular to a field or discipline, go to a scholarly journal in a relevant field and search individual articles for instances of the phrase in question or what you believe the wording should be.