Description
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The Chicago Manual of Style is the central style guide of US publishing, and now it has a new edition, the 18th. There are updates both large and small, some announced and some snuck in under the radar, and the overall shift is in the direction of permissiveness. For example: In source titles, should prepositions of five or more letters have an initial capital? Can you omit the city of publication in a work-cited entry for a book? Is the singular “they” acceptable in formal writing? The answer to all these questions is now yes.
This 90-minute webinar will go over the additions and changes to CMOS that are most likely to affect proofreaders and copyeditors. Bring your notebook for the presentation and your burning questions for the Q&A period, and prepare to be surprised.
An online subscription to CMOS is recommended. If you’re an EFA member, don’t forget to apply your 20% discount!
Kirk Perry (he/him) has an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where he taught Business Communication at the Isenberg School of Management. Currently he teaches writing at Portland Community College, and he runs two self-paced courses at the EFA: Grammar Fundamentals and Proofreading and Copyediting with The Chicago Manual of Style. He also works as a freelance copyeditor, and his clients include the University of New Mexico Press and the Huntington Library Quarterly.
