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Editorial Skills for Business

This practical course introduces the role of editing and proofreading content in any business. It has been developed to meet the needs of any organisation that generates and prepares copy for presentation or publication in digital or print formats. The course explains what needs to be done, and why, and the basics of marking up on paper and working on screen.

Using a blended learning approach, delegates will download and complete a pre-course exercise, to get engaged with the new skills straight away. The work will then be brought to the classroom training session, to stimulate discussion and aid improvement. Model answers will enable trainees to gauge their progress.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you should be able to:

understand the editorial process from start to finish

identify and fix ambiguity, poor grammar and structure

achieve consistency within a house style

communicate effectively and knowledgeably with clients, writer, designers, programmers, and any other stakeholders

Who will benefit from this course?

Editorial staff at publishers, charities, membership organisations, or any business with some publishing function; people responsible for, or who work on, corporate communications; in-house administrators who brief editorial freelancers and/or who are in quality control.

Programme

Session 1: What does an editor do?

· Overview of editing, proof-editing and editing for the web

· Differences between editing and proofreading

Session 2: Getting the message across and fixing the words

· Organisation and structure

· Clarity

· Grammar and punctuation

· Legal considerations

Session 3: Consistency and style

· Discussion of the pre-course exercise

· Consistency and house style

· Global changes and find and replace

Session 4: Ways of working

· Strategies for editing on paper and on screen

· Proofreading on paper and on PDF

Session 5: Communication

· Communicating with clients, authors and other stakeholders

Consolidation and discussion

· Consolidation exercise and discussion

Your Tutors

Caroline Drake was copy-editorial manager at Cambridge University Press, where she trained copy-editors and proofreaders for 15 years. She updated the fourth edition of Butcher’s Copy-editing (with a colleague). Freelance since 2005, she is a tutor for the PTC’s Copy-Editing by Distance Learning course.

Anne Waddingham trades as WordMedic (‘Making words better’) and has worked in STM publishing for over 30 years. She specialises in tutoring, on-screen editing and proofreading, and project management. She was editor-in-chief of the second edition of New Hart’s Rules (OUP, 2014), and wrote the on-screen editing chapter in the fourth edition of Butcher’s Copy-editing (CUP, 2006). Anne has a Licentiateship in Editorial Skills from the City & Guilds Institute.

Christina Thomas has been a freelance editor, proofreader and trainer for 25 years and was a tutor on the PTC’s Basic Proofreading distance learning course for ten years.

Sarah Price has been a freelance copy-editor and trainer since 2002, after more than 20 years in the IT industry as a technical editor, writer and project manager, most recently specialising in course development.

Dates: 13 May 2015, 25 September 2015, 10 November 2015
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £425+VAT
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