Ugh, you have my sympathies. I'm not convinced that these kinds of tests are effective at anything except giving the employer an excuse to cut you out of the running. But if the employer sets up the hoop, you must jump through it.
One more place to practice editing is: http://www.bitesizeedits.com/ Authors post their work on the site, and it "crowd-sources" editing. Most of the text I've seen there isn't too bad (fiction whose problems are above the sentence level), but you might be able to find an ESL author and delve into their work. --Janet On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Claire Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had 3 different types of test so far, so it's hard: > > 1) the first one was to edit a document about a company's product. It had > been edited by someone who was a non-English speaking person. I think that > I can work on this by working on OOo reviews, but at the moment there aren't > so many texts written by people who have English as a second language. > > 2) Write how to use a piece of hardware or software that you've never seen > before. On that occasion I was given a piece of hardware and I thought it > was unfair to expect someone who hasn't got an engineering background to > know all the jargon. If it had been something simple like using a > microwave, or if I'd been given a piece of software, I think it would have > been better. > > 3) Traditional editing tests. You're given a hard piece of prose and told > to correct the spelling, grammar, use alternative vocabulary to describe > something in simple English keeping it as concise as possible. On the > second part of the test you're given a long piece of procedural text but it > is in the wrong order so you have to reorder it and you can also edit it to > make it read better. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
