EditPub 2016: List of Selected Candidates

1. Tanima Ghosh
2. Aurko Mitra
3. Shatarupa Brahma
4. Sohini Datta
5. Sulagna Dasgupta
6. Debadrita Mitra
7. Nandini Mitra
8. Shalmi Barman
9. Yash Bhattacharya
10. Anupama Singh Choubey
11. Aparajita Bhattacharya
12. Aditi Chatterjee
13. Jyoti Kataria
14. Debarna Banerjee
15. Binita Majumdar
16. Purnima Lama
17. Shulagna Basu
18. Ujjainee Roy
19. Somdutta Saha
20. Anwesha Kar
21. Pritha Sengupta
22. Dipawali Mitra
23. Moupali Nandy
24. Poorvi Ghosh
25. Indira Bhattacharya
26. Soutrik Dey
27. Arundhati Dey
28. Anwesha Roy
29. Debakshi Dutta
30. Indrani Bose

Waiting list

1. Chandreyee Das
2. Rituparna Das
3. Riddhi Mukhopadhyay
4. Debapam Chakrabarty
5. Bedbyas Datta
   
   

Admission to the course will take place on 5 January 2016 from 5:30 pm in the classroom of the School of Cultural Texts and Records (see below). The course fee of Rs 10,000 is to be paid preferably on the same day or by Friday 8 January.  The fee may be paid through cheque or demand draft payable in Kolkata, made out to the ‘The Registrar, Jadavpur University’.

Unless specified, most EditPub classes will take place at the new classrooms of the School of Cultural Texts and Records. These rooms are located on the top floor of the Rabindra Bhavan building (next to Darshan Bhavan), five minutes' walk from Gate No. 5. If you have trouble finding the classrooms, please refer to the map below.

Freelancing for Pearson

Pearson  Global Editions is looking for Freelance Editors

Freelance editors will:

·         work with Global Editions (GE) in-house editors to deliver copyedited material that is clear and consistent.

·         work to correct spellings, grammar and punctuation; check content for consistency and styles; and reword or rewrite content, if required.

·         work on multiple formats including, but not restricted to, teaching manuals, study guides, solutions manuals, companion websites, and various Pearson eLearning platforms.

·         check authorial submissions to see whether complete sets of material have been received; compile lists of missing material; and track the receipt of such material through to completion.

·         analyze feedbackfrom review panels regarding GE material and manage revisions with GE contributors using this feedback, in collaboration with GE in-house editors.

Ideal candidates would be very comfortable with Microsoft Word and competent with Microsoft Excel. They wouldn’t need to be an expert in the subject they are working on, but they should be comfortable editing material ranging from economics to computer science. They will definitely have input from GE in-house editors throughout the process to help them evaluate the material they are working on.

Candidates who are interested should email their résumés to aaditya.bugga@pearson.com

Please include your phone number in your résumé.