October 2020
Vol. 1 No. 7 | ISSN: 2652-5836
Feature Article
Membership director joins board
IPEd has appointed a board director responsible for membership. Pete Griffin, General Manager and deputy CEO of the Real Estate Institute of NSW (REINSW), brings to IPEd a depth of knowledge.
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IPEd News
Profile: Lauren Bevilacqua
In this issue of Gatherings, we profile outgoing SA President Lauren Bevilacqua.
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CEO Karen Lee reports on IPEd’s submission to senate inquiry
Welcome to the October issue of Gatherings.
During September, IPEd made a submission to the Senate Standing Committees on Education and Employment, which is inquiring into the Higher Education Support Amendment (Job-Ready Graduates and Supporting Regional and Remote Students) Bill 2020.
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Tasmanian conference update
Submissions for conference presentations reveal that members have a wide range of interests: working with the IPEd code of ethics, creating accessible books, editing fantasy languages (as found in works as diverse as Lord of the Rings or Star Trek) and planning for the unplanned are just a few of the topics suggested.
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Deterring academic cheating services — legislation passed
The Federal Government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment (Prohibiting Academic Cheating Services) Bill 2019, released for stakeholder comment in early 2019, formally became law on 3 September 2020.
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General Interest
Discount onThe Subversive Copy Editor
IPEd members can now receive a 30 per cent discount on the second edition of The Subversive Copy Editorby Carol Saller. To get the discount, log in to the member portal and go to ‘Member discounts’.
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‘NAPLAN generation’ could provide more work for editors
The Conversation has published two articles focusing on the education shortfalls that stem from the high-pressure National Assessment Program — Literacy And Numeracy (NAPLAN) test.
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Western Australia Publishing profile: UWA Publishing
In November 2019, the University of Western Australia made an announcement that shook the WA literary community: it would be closing UWA Publishing (UWAP) in its ‘current form’ to replace it with an open-source digital publishing model.
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Vale Barbara Ker Wilson AM
24 September 1929 to 10 September 2020
Barbara Ker Wilson, a founding member of the Society of Editors (Qld), passed away peacefully on 10 September.
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Inclusive publishing explored
IPEd member Dr Joely Taylor AE has written a blog post published by Well Writ, Inclusive and accessible publishing, which focuses on the meaning and importance of inclusive publishing.
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AMOSS expands into AMOS
Andina Faragher, science writer and a Chief Editor of AMOS at Biotext (who has a PhD in molecular biology, background in science administration), spoke to the Editors NSW September 2020 meeting on how Biotext and Macquarie University are expanding their Australian manual of scientific style (AMOSS) as the Australian manual of style (AMOS).
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Sciflyers Zoom meeting
IPEd members who work on science publications are warmly invited to join the first Australia and New Zealand-wide Zoom networking session at 11am AEDT on Friday 9 October.
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Remembering John Bangsund: Muphry’s Law
This month we introduce a short series of articles by the inimitable John Bangsund, who was editor of the Society of Editors (Victoria) Newsletter between 1978 and 1996.
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Events
EdsQ: Genre games: writing and editing young adult fiction
Date: Wednesday 7 October, 6.45pm
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EdVic: Sciflyers meeting
Date: Friday 9 October, 11am
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EdANZ: Bay of Plenty editors catch-up
Date: Thursday 8 October, 11am
Location:Grindz Café, 50 First Avenue, Tauranga
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EdANZ: Zoom Hui: Academic editors
Date: Monday 12 October, 7.30pm
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EdANZ: Zoom Hui: Fiction and poetry editors
Date: Tuesday 13 October, 7.30pm
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EdANZ: Zoom Hui: Non-fiction, newspaper and magazine editors
Date: Wednesday 14 October, 7.30pm
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EdANZ: Zoom Hui: Government, NGO and business editors
Date: Thursday, 15 October, 7.30pm
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EdSA: Book club
Date: Thursday 15 October, 7pm
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EdVic: Punctuation: solving tricky issues
Dates: 17 and 31 October
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EdNSW: Member meeting: Fiction editing
Date: Tuesday 3 November, 7pm
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EdVic: Reference and bibliographies
Dates: 7 and 14 November
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EdVic:The Subversive Copy Editorbook club
Date: Thursday 12 November, noon
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EdVic: 10 ways to make your editing website better
Date: Thursday 26 November, 6pm
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EdNSW: End of year social event
Date: One evening in December 2020
Location: to be determined