Seminars - Proofreading & Editorial Skills

LEARN TO PROOFREAD AND COPY-EDIT IN FOUR DAYS

 

This course (equivalent to the Proofreading and Editorial Skills correspondence course) provides a thorough grounding in editorial processes which will equip you for working freelance or full-time.

 

  • The place of proofreading in publishing.

  • Using the proofreading symbols.

  • Techniques and approach.

  • Exercises and assessments.

  • The role of copy-editing and its difference from proofreading.

  • The art of copy-editing.

  • Intervention and dealing with authors.

  • Styles and techniques of editing.

  • Work and how to get it.

During the four days you will complete a large number of short exercises to consolidate your new skills as you learn them. There is also group work and plenty of time to ask questions and talk about problems. Students take away three manuals of comprehensive course notes and additional exercises, and have two years email support after the course. We'll happily give help and guidance on both finding and on doing the work.

 

After the course you complete assessments in proofreading and copy-editing in your own time, and send them to Chapterhouse for marking and feedback. Successful students are awarded the Chapterhouse Certificate of Competence in Proofreading and Copy-Editing.

 

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I am not being gushy but I honestly would not have got this job without the skills I learned! As I had very little work experience, the fact that I had training in proofreading and copy-editing gave me the edge that got me the job.

HK, London

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