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    SENSE publishes a blog with posts by members on a wide range of topics. If you have any suggestions or wish to contribute please contact our Content Manager. 
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    Library

    [Available to members only] SENSE has a large library of industry related files, including guidelines, guides, articles, and links to resources. The library also gives easy access to society documentation, including AGM reports, rules and the constitution, and survey reports.
  • Monthly newsletter

    Monthly newsletter

    [Available to members only] Members receive industry and society news and summaries of blog posts and articles by e-mail every month.
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    Guidelines for Proofreading Student Texts

    SENSE has prepared its own Guidelines for Proofreading Student Texts and a Form to Confirm Proofreading Services. These can be downloaded free of charge.
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  • The SENSE Handbook

    [Available to members only] Nineteen informative chapters with best-practice overviews, authored by a wide variety of contributors from all walks of SENSE life. Chapters include: Basic business skills, Bookkeeping, Selling language skills, Working with agencies, Setting rates, Managing clients, Quality management,…

  • Newsletter archive (1995 to...)

    [Available to members only] Members can read many of the old newsletters and eSense editions going all the way back to 1995.

  • Books by SENSE members

    Many of our members have written, co-written, or translated books, journal articles and chapters of books. Here is a selection.
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How the language industry has changed over the past 20 (or so) years – John Linnegar

 

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About the presenters

 John Linnegar

John Linnegar began his career as a teacher of English, History and Mathematics. His passion for working with words was ignited by his high school teachers of English, Latin and German. Those strong grammatical foundations combined with a love of his mother tongue led him towards authorship and, as a direct result, towards improving authors’ texts for publication. He has been an avid ‘improver of authors’ words’ for four decades now, and remains dedicated to making their texts read as clearly as possible (and in the process saving a reputation or two!).

John is author of several texts dealing with matters grammatical and stylistic, including contributions to the Oxford English grammar: The advanced guide (OUP, 2015) and, most recently, with Ken McGillivray, grammar, punctuation and all that jazz . . . (MLA Publishers, 2019). He currently offers a personalised ‘online’ Grammar for Editors course aimed at those who need to brush up their English grammar and an online training course on Plain Language.

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