Wordhouse has carried out assignments for a wide range of professional bodies, some of which – listed here – are briefly described lower down the page.
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Aslib, The Association for Information Management
Wordhouse commissioned a range of new books and new
editions for Aslib on information science, information management
and librarianship. |
Association of British Credit Unions
Using ABCUL’s latest
corporate branding guidelines, Wordhouse wrote and designed a new series of
promotional booklets and newsletters. The assignment included taking detailed
technical and design briefs from the client, picture research, copywriting, editing,
typesetting and proofreading. |
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Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors
On
behalf of Echelon Learning, Wordhouse managed the initial development
and annual revision of a complete programme of distance and e-learning
materials for students preparing for the CIIA's qualifications at Diploma
and Advanced Diploma levels. |
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
CIMA Publishing
called in Wordhouse when they needed the development a series of student training
resources to be project-managed and completed on a fast-track basis: the
series, comprising sixteen products, was produced and published in a digital format. |
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Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
On behalf of Echelon Learning, Wordhouse managed the design,
authoring, editing, desktop publishing, production and distribution of
over 2,000 hours’ worth of text-based open learning material for CIPFA,
the leading public sector accountancy body. The materials comprised open
learning study guides, revision guides, question banks and textbooks
for each of the ten examinations (plus case study and project) which
CIPFA students must pass to qualify for membership of their professional
body. More than 5,000 A4 pages of learning materials were developed, at
the equivalent of first year degree level, and they were updated by
Wordhouse annually. |
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
After
a rigorous procurement tendering process, Wordhouse won a prized
contract to develop a new programme of learning materials for the
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS). During an intensive
18 month period, Wordhouse developed 17 course books for CIPS, each
comprising around 350 pages.
Wordhouse
proposed and agreed the overall structure, approach and instructional
design with CIPS, then commissioned and managed all authors and
technical reviewers through to completion. Wordhouse created a house
style for CIPS and managed all stages of the editorial process –
including instructional editing, copy-editing, design and layout,
proofreading and indexing – right through to press-optimised PDFs.
The materials were created using a sophisticated proprietary content management system (CMS) and stored as XML files. Wordhouse and CIPS then worked together on the further re-development of the materials for other markets, as well as further support and e-learning products. |
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Dyslexia Action
Wordhouse helped Dyslexia Action, the national charity and education
provider for dyslexic people and teachers, to prepare the ground for a
major overhaul of its Dyslexia Institute Literacy Programme. The
programme, a detailed guide to teaching reading and spelling, consisted
of a 600-page manual, highly illustrated and comprising numerous tables
containing lists of phonetic symbols, had to be converted from its
latest PDF version back into MS Word documents so that Dyslexia Action's
authors could begin the work of revising and updating the manual. |
IFS School of Finance
When the IFS School of Finance – formerly the Chartered Institute of
Bankers – wanted to develop a new qualification in Personal Financial
Planning for teenage and adult learners, it commissioned Wordhouse
to write the learning materials for each of the planned ten units of the
qualification, for delivery online. Working from the IFS syllabuses,
Wordhouse structured each unit and wrote all text, questions and
activities, and sourced all illustrations. Following layout and final
checking, the materials are now being delivered as part of the School of
Finance’s wide range of specialist and non-specialist offerings.
Wordhouse has also provided ad hoc editorial support for other IFS publications – including, for example, its 'Certificate in International Trade and Finance'. |
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Institute of Commercial Management
Wordhouse has managed the revision, editing, design, typsetting and
printing of a number of ICM's business studies textbooks. We also
produced Defining Business Success, a selection of case studies
of award winners of the National Business Awards, which was a
collaboration between the NBA, the ICM and Southampton Solent
University. |
Royal College of Anaesthetists
Wordhouse assisted the College in the management, development and
production of a service standards audit manual for hospital anaesthetic
departments and also provided a re-design of the College's bi-monthly
membership magazine that is distributed to 11,000 members. |
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Royal Town Planning Institute
On behalf of Echelon Learning Ltd, publishers of LearningMatters.com,
Wordhouse managed the commissioning and editorial development of a vast
range of bite-sized modules on town planning issues, published by the
RTPI. |
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