Copyediting and the fact-checking process

Denise and Louise talk to Laura Poole, a professional copyeditor who specializes in working with university presses on scholarly non-fiction, mainly in the humanities. Laura discusses the importance of fact checking.Listen to find out more about:What a copyediting service includesWhen fact checking takes place in the editorial processFiction: place names, historical accuracy, idiom, dates, etymologyNon-fiction: people names, obscure terms, place names, dates, protecting author reputationDifferences between spot checking and fact checkingFact checking for consistency across seriesPrint versus digital: preventing reputational damage in the long termTools for fact checkingWho’s responsible for fact checking?Effective and sensitive querying of facts in non-fictionArtistic licence with facts in fictionMentioned in the show:Laura Poole, Archer Editorial: https://www.sfep.org.uk/directory/laura-poole and https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurapoole/Tool: Internet Movie Database (IMDb): https://www.imdb.com/Tool: The Historical Thesaurus of English: https://ht.ac.uk/Tool: Google Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngramsTool: CIA – The World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/Tool: The New Food Lover's Companion (Barron's Cooking Guide)Tool: The Art of Firearms in Fiction: https://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/the-art-of-firearms-in-fiction.html Denise and LouiseDenise Cowle Editorial Services (non-fiction)Louise Harnby | Proofreader & Copyeditor (fiction) Music credit‘Vivacity’ Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/