Dates:
11-13 Jun / 28-30 Jul / 18-20 Aug / 10-12 Sep (Oxford) / 24-26 Sep / 27-29 Oct / 26-28 Nov / 10-12 Dec 2008 (a three-day course)
Price:
£719+VAT (a number of discounts are available)
Venue:
The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels), or the Said Business School in Oxford (see above for Oxford dates - a map will be enclosed with the joining instructions).
Book course online or phone +44 (0)20 8874 2718 for availability
"Excellent, professional tuition. I think I'll feel more confident in my own editorial work now."
Macmillan English Campus delegate
This intensive, practical editing course will give you skills that will stay with you throughout your career. It's your chance to:
- learn to mark up copy correctly using the BSI symbols
- become more confident about what you should change and how to do it
- practise copy-editing in subject areas outside your comfort zone.
Whether you work on screen or on paper, if you’re working on your first manuscripts, this course will give you the fundamental skills you need. Our most established course, it has become a rite of passage for new copy-editors and is highly regarded by all major publishers.
You’ll get expert tuition on various aspects of copy-editing, after which you’ll have the chance to put your new knowledge to the test in a variety of exercises.
Your tutor will always be on hand to help and we’ll also give you a folder of comprehensive reference material for you to take away. What’s more, after the course, you’ll have three months’ access to a web site containing additional exercises and other material, which you can use to refresh your skills.
Programme
- Proofreading
- Marking up copy for designer/keyboarder
- Editing prelims
- Editing tables
- Changing text to a different format
- Editing and keying in figures
- Using quotation marks
- Using italics
- Representing numbers as words or numerals
- Editing specialist text
- Copy-fitting
- Editing text with notes, references and bibliographies
- Editing indexes
Online training
This course includes online training and support.
Who will benefit from this course?
Editorial Assistants; Copy-editors; Assistant Editors; Desk Editors; Production Editors
Your tutor
Each course is led by one of a team of six editorial and publishing experts.
We also offer Copy-Editing by Distance Learning.
Note that most of our open courses can also be run as in company events.
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Dates: 11-13 Jun / 28-30 Jul / 18-20 Aug / 10-12 Sep (Oxford) / 24-26 Sep / 27-29 Oct / 26-28 Nov / 10-12 Dec 2008
Price: £719+VAT (a number of discounts are available).
Venue: The Publishing Training Centre in Wandsworth, London (see a map and a list of local hotels) or the Said Business School in Oxford (a map will be enclosed with the joining instructions).
Make a provisional booking on Copy-Editing Skills
Please complete this form to make a provisional booking. You will then receive an acknowledgement by email.
Shortly afterwards, we will send you a registration form with which you can confirm your booking.