Copy Editing Training

Intro to Copy Editing: A sound introduction to the editorial discipline

This course is ideal for those who are new to the field of editing (whether you’re editing your own writing or the writing of others). It introduces you to the editorial discipline; to the techniques that professional copy editors use to make their work quicker, more accurate and more powerful. Above all, this course presents all of the tools and techniques you need to be able to polish up the English language.

So if you’re a sub-editor, an editor, a PA, an assistant, a content manager, a PR practitioner, a corporate communicator, a marketing person or absolutely anyone who is involved in reviewing or improving the writing of others, this course is for you.

Intro to Copy Editing: Course Overview

  • Introduction
  • The role & responsibilities of the editor
  • Mastering the art of writer-editor sensitivity
  • Editing vs re-writing: the fine line
  • New & old rules for parts of speech
  • Verbs, voice & achieving concord
  • Achieving better sentence structure
  • Hacking through the punctuation jungle
  • Understanding & eliminating redundancy
  • The dangers of relying on spell-check
  • Editorial technique
  • The ins & outs of number formatting
  • Conclusion

Please note: final course content may deviate from that described above.

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