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Editorial Skills for Business

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A one-day course

Start date:

25 September 2015
10 November 2015
23 February 2016
18 May 2016
27 September 2016

Venue:

DV West One – Portland Place, London W1B 1PR

Courses scheduled to start at 9.30am prompt and end at approximately 5pm.

Price:

£425+VAT

A number of discounts are available

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Recent delegate feedback

‘I very much enjoyed the course – I found the teacher extremely knowledgeable. She came across supportive and friendly and the pace of the session was just right.’
Delegate from TMSDI

‘I feel that I now have the skills to promote myself as a freelance proofreader. The certificate will show prospective employers that I am trained to industry standard. I also feel more confident … The teaching was exceptional. There was space to ask questions and they were answered in a very helpful, practical way. The location was lovely, and so was the lunch! I also think that having a small group was conducive to a better learning experience.’
Freelance delegate

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This practical course introduces the role of editing and proofreading content in any business. It has been developed to meet the needs of all organisations that generate and prepare 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 become 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.

Learn how to…

understand the editorial process from start to finish
identify and fix ambiguity, poor grammar and structure
achieve consistency through a house style
communicate effectively and knowledgeably with clients, writers, 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 involved 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
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

Communicating with clients, authors and other stakeholders

Consolidation and discussion.

Your Tutors

Caroline Drake trained copy-editors and proofreaders at Cambridge University Press for 15 years. Freelance since 2005, she is a tutor for the PTC’s Copy-Editing by Distance Learning course.

Anne Waddingham likes to focus on the practical aspects of editorial work, especially the nitty-gritty of getting the best out of software, in order to work efficiently and accurately.

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 10 years. Her training specialisms are proofreading, copy-editing, grammar and web editing and writing.

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

Note that most of our short courses can also be run as In-company courses.

Dates: 25 September 2015, 10 November 2015, 23 February 2016, 17 May 2016, 26 September 2016
Duration: A one-day course
Price: £425+VAT
A number of discounts are available

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