Claire,
I'll look for the material I used when I was teaching technical
editing, and see if I have anything that fits item 1 or 3. And there's
probably quite a bit more on the OOo wiki that you could practice on
for item 1.
Can't help with prepping for item 2, but I used to run into a similar
problem quite often when I was freelancing.
--Jean
Claire Wood wrote:
I've had 3 different types of test so far, so it's hard:
1) the first one was to edit a document about a company's product. It had
been edited by someone who was a non-English speaking person. I think that
I can work on this by working on OOo reviews, but at the moment there aren't
so many texts written by people who have English as a second language.
2) Write how to use a piece of hardware or software that you've never seen
before. On that occasion I was given a piece of hardware and I thought it
was unfair to expect someone who hasn't got an engineering background to
know all the jargon. If it had been something simple like using a
microwave, or if I'd been given a piece of software, I think it would have
been better.
3) Traditional editing tests. You're given a hard piece of prose and told
to correct the spelling, grammar, use alternative vocabulary to describe
something in simple English keeping it as concise as possible. On the
second part of the test you're given a long piece of procedural text but it
is in the wrong order so you have to reorder it and you can also edit it to
make it read better.
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