Standalone Course Presentation: Fact-Checking for Editors
This presentation explores the essential role of fact-checking in editing and provides key strategies to ensure accuracy in manuscripts.
Date
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Location
Online
About the Event
In an age when so many writers rely on secondary or tertiary sources, unverified websites, and artificial intelligence to help create manuscripts, how can editors ensure that texts are accurate? Many editors—from copy editors to developmental editors—provide limited fact-checking services while editing. This typically takes the form of verifying names, dates, and places. But what about verifying facts related to history or current events? To data and statistics? To scientific or medical findings? This webinar will discuss why fact-checking is more important than ever, as well as share a broad overview of which editorial points should be verified and steps to ensure accuracy in a manuscript.
Speaking at the event
Kelli Christiansen, MLA
President, Bibliobibuli Professional Editorial Services, Inc.
Kelli Christiansen has spent more than two decades in publishing, as a bookseller, an editor, a literary agent, and a writer. She began her career as a bookseller before becoming a journalist and then serving as an acquisitions editor with Publications International, Ltd./Consumer Guide, as a senior...
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