Editing 201: I Ran Spellcheck, Now What?

Instructor: Jen McGovern, CPSM, Mid-Atlantic Regional Marketing Manager, VHB

Tuesday, October 17, 2–3:30 p.m. EST/1 p.m. CST/Noon MT/11 a.m. PST

In Editing 101, we talked about the importance of editing, building a style guide, and setting up a quality-control process. For our October webinar, we’ll take your editing to the next level by focusing on rewriting and revising text.

Using real-life examples from your proposals, reports, and marketing materials, we’ll employ editing best practices to make the content clearer and more cohesive and concise. But editing isn’t just about cutting and deleting—it’s also knowing when a conversation with your author is better than sending comments through tracked changes. To help, we’ll discuss conversation starters for thoughtfully and sensitively working with authors.

Learning Objectives

During this webinar, participants will learn:

  1. Editing and proofreading techniques to improve the readability of content
  2. Ways to identify weak words and options for replacing them
  3. Conversation starters for working with reluctant authors

Want to get an editor’s perspective on your materials? Please send your sample to jmcgovernSMPS@gmail.com by October 7, 2017, and it may be given a makeover during the Editing 201 webinar!

     Cosential - Built to Win

SMPS webinars are sponsored by Cosential


Jen McGovern, FSMPS, CPSM

Mid-Atlantic Regional Capture Manager

VHB

Jen McGovern, FSMPS, CPSM, is the Mid-Atlantic Regional Capture Manager for VHB, a 2,200-person engineering, planning, and environmental science firm with 30+ offices along the East Coast. With extensive editing, writing, and marketing experience, she fell into the AEC industry in 2012 and found a passion for proposals and infrastructure projects. From capture strategy to positioning to proposal messaging, Jen has provided hundreds of hours of training , helping marketers and seller-doers win more work. Jen is a past president (and current Chapter Advisor) of the SMPS Washington, DC, chapter and serves on the Editorial Committee for the SMPS Marketer journal. She achieved her CPSM designation in 2015 and was recognized as a Fellow of the Society in 2025.

SMPS webinars are approved for 1.5 continuing education units for the Certified Professional Services Marketer (CPSM) program and 1.5 learning units from the American Institute of Architects. Recordings of SMPS webinars are approved for 1.5 CPSM CEUs.

Per-Site Registration Fee*  

SMPS Member Site Registration: $199

Nonmember Site Registration: $259  

*Remember: webinars are open to your whole staff. Your team can participate from one location in your office for one fee. Register today and benefit from affordable, convenient, actionable learning and earn valuable CPSM CEUs and AIA LUs!  

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