4th IPEd Conference

‘Getting the message across’, Adelaide, South Australia, 8–10 October 2009.

The Society of Editors (SA) hosted the highly successful 4th IPEd National Editors Conference.

The following papers were submitted for web publication:

South Australian Honorary Life Member Pamela Ball launched the second volume of Editors in conversation. You can read her launch speech [PDF 51KB].
Julian Burnside’s keynote address, ‘Words and language, truth and lies’ [PDF 61KB], was enthusiastically received.
Flinders University’s Steve Evans and Radio National’s Mike Ladd spoke about poets editing poets [PDF 100KB].
Pamela Hewitt [PDF 126KB] explained how to avoid depression by editing your way out of a recession.
In ‘Edit less, explain more’ [PDF 68KB], Greg Maguire showed how web tools can improve academic writing.
Val Mobley recounted her experiences with an offshore online editing service [PDF 50KB].
Lisa Morrison explored the author–editor relationship through the metaphor of mining for gems [PDF 87KB].
Science educator and television presenter Rob Morrison held forth about ‘“Breakthrough” and other swear words’ [PDF 97KB] in science writing for the media.
Peter Riches spoke about project management in corporate communication [PDF 138KB].
Deborah Singerman asked ‘How sustainable is green editing?’ [PDF 70KB].
Peter Storer described the CAL Mentoring Program run by the Qld Society of Editors [PDF 187KB].

All speakers whose papers are published here retain copyright in those papers.