Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association In this session, APA Style experts will answer frequently asked questions about APA Style, note areas that copyeditors should watch for, dispel some APA Style myths, and share resources the APA Style team has created for learning APA Style.

Guest: NAIWE’s Executive Director April Michelle Davis The more publishing professionals can do to increase efficiency in the writing, editing, or proofreading process, the more valuable they are to publishers and clients, and the more they can earn. Get the scoop on creating and using macros in Word to make your workflow faster, more efficient, more accurate, and more productive.

Guest: NAIWE’s Editorial Expert Barbara McNichol Writers desire to have a nearly perfect manuscript when it becomes ready for publication. However, they have some mistakes in common with one another. Learning what these mistakes are and fixing them even before you hire the editor can make the editing process smoother, faster, and cheaper!

Guest: NAIWE’s Editorial Expert Barbara McNichol Do you need to hire an editor but can't afford the one you really want? Learn ways to save both time and money in the editing process by making some of the corrections to your manuscript. Explore how to turn five words into one word, change two weak sentences into one strong sentence, identify and remove lazy words, write in parallel paths with rhythm, and more!

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Cadman Training Multiple tools claim to help editors and writers speed up and improve the quality of their work. But how do you know which tools to choose, which are easy to use, reliable, and good value for the money? To help you determine what’s worth your investment of time and money, Hilary Cadman will share three of her favorite tools: PerfectIt, PhraseExpress, and ProWritingAid.

Guest: NAIWE’s Ghostwriting Expert Claudia Suzanne Do you know about the polish step between the final rewrite and line/copy editing? It’s called Musical Line Editing (MLE), and it’s the ghostwriter’s secret ace-in-the-hole to transform a good manuscript. In fact, MLE is exactly the type of polish traditional publishers used to do on all their acquired titles, but now can only afford to do for high-end authors.

Guest: NAIWE’s Benefit Partner Intelligent Editing If you use CMOS, the collaboration between the Manual and PerfectIt offers a new way to check your documents. This session shows how you can use The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt to save time in your editing work. It takes a deep dive into how the style works and what it finds so that you understand how and when to apply it.

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre Everyone appreciates an apt simile or striking metaphor. Figurative language enlivens prose and aids the reader’s understanding. But it is easy to get entangled in mixed metaphors, comparisons that fizzle, or images that convey the opposite of what the writer intends. And writers are not always the best judges of their effects.

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre We know that split infinitives are okay, sentences can begin with conjunctions, sentence-ending prepositions are perfectly good English, and it’s okay to use hopefully as a sentence adverb. We know this because grammarians and linguists have been gleefully exploding shibboleths and bogus rules. But what rules or usages are worth maintaining?

Guest: NAIWE’s Grammar Expert John McIntyre John, who was a working newspaper editor for 40 years, has watched writers grapple with changing patterns of English usage and wants to help you make reasonable decisions. Anticipating your concerns, he is preparing advice on perennial concerns: Should we give up on “whom”? Is singular “they” here to stay and acceptable everywhere? What can we do about “lie” and “lay”?

Guest: NAIWE’s AP Stylebook Expert Mark Allen The growing reference tome provides guidance on how to use gender-neutral language and language dealing with sexual assault. It cautions against the “senior citizen” label. And it proclaims “mistress” is not a very useful term. Mark Allen gives the rundown on all the updates in the new edition and talk about the move away from the paper book and toward doing more online.

Guest: NAIWE’s AP Stylebook Expert Mark Allen The Associated Press Stylebook, the essential guide to style and usage for news, PR, marketing, and corporate communication, is now updated for 2019 with its most substantive changes in years.