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Editing Medical Journals: short course
10-12 November 2010, Oxford, UK
Now in its 13th year, the course provides an essential forum for editors to meet and discuss how to make their journals more successful.
www.pspconsulting.org/medical-short.shtml

Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers
The direct purpose of organising this school is to teach new PhD students in astronomy how to express their scientific results through adequate and efficient science writing. In other words: how to write scientific papers for different forums (journals, proceedings, thesis manuscripts, etc.).
Contact C. Sterken, ASTRONOMY (WE/OBSS), University of Brussels, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium; csterken@vub.ac.be ; www.swya.org/

Publishing Training Centre at Book House, London
Contact: The Publishing Training Centre at Book House, 45 East Hill, Wandsworth, London SW18 2QZ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)20 8874 2718, fax +44 (0)20 8870 8985, publishing.training@bookhouse.co.uk; www.train4publishing.co.uk

Society for Editors and Proofreaders workshops
SfEP runs one-day workshops in London and occasionally elsewhere in the UK on copy-editing, proofreading, grammar, and much else
Training enquiries: tel: +44 (0)20 8785 5617; trainingenquiries@sfep.org.uk
Other enquiries: SfEP, Erico house, 93-99 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, London SW15 2TG. Tel: +44 (0)20 8785 5617; administration@sfep.org.uk; www.sfep.org.uk

Society of Indexers workshops
The Society of Indexers runs workshops for beginners and more experienced indexers in various cities in the UK. Details and booking forms can be found at www.indexers.org.uk; admin@indexers.org.uk

University of Chicago
Medical writing, editing, and ethics are among the many courses available at the Graham School of General Studies, 5835 S Kimbark Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637-1608, USA. Fax +1 773 702 6814; www.grahamschool.uchicago.edu

University of Oxford, Department for Continuing Education
Courses on effective writing for biomedical professionals and on presenting in biomedicine, science, and technology
Contact: Leanne Banns, CPD Centre, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, Littlegate House, 16/17 St Ebbes Street, Oxford OX1 1PT, UK; tel: +44 (0)1865 286953; fax: +44 (0)1865 286934; leanne.banns@conted.ox.ac.uk; www.conted.ox.ac.uk/cpd/personaldev