In today’s world, copyeditors and proofreaders are sought after not only in the corporate environment and Internet-related ventures, but also by start-up companies, small businesses, and entrepreneurs.
If you’re looking for a new career path or if you’re a writer who wants to improve your writing skills, learning how to proofread and copyedit with our easy-to-follow, in-depth course, maybe just what you need.
Learning these specialized skills will help improve your overall writing ability and may provide a career path that is both lucrative and in high demand.
Freelance copyediting and proofreading jobs are bountiful, and many companies offer work-from-home opportunities as an additional benefit.
This course is designed for freshers and professionals, at any level, in different fields, such as publishing, journalism, marketing, management, education, sociology, and science.
People interested in developing copy-editing skills or updating their abilities to produce professionally written documents in any industry will benefit from the program’s detail-driven approach to copyediting and proofreading.
Week 1:
Introduction to Proofreading and Copyediting
1.1 What is Copy Editing?
1.2 What is Proofreading?
1.3 Copyediting Versus Proofreading
Week 2:
Basics skills you need in Copyediting and Proofreading.
2.1 Basics of Grammar rules.
2.2 Research Skills
2.3 Layout Designing
Week 3:
Tools for Proofreading and Copyediting
3.1 Tools for Spell Checking
3.2 Tools for Proofreading & checking Grammar
3.3 Tools for Copyediting
Week 4:
Style Sheets and Style Guides in Proofreading & Copyediting
4.1 Finding the Appropriate Style Guides
4.2 Use of Style Sheet
4.3 Practice using style sheet
Week 5:
Proofreaders’ Marks and How They Are Used to Copy Edit and Proofread
5.1 Types of errors in writing
5.2 Types of errors in Sentence
5.3 Proofreader’s marks and symbols used while proofreading.
Week 6:
Step-by-step training to Copyedit and Proofread.
6.1 How to do Copyediting?
6.2 How to do Proofreading?
6.3 How to do Copyediting & proofreading both
Week 7:
Basic Qualification and Knowledge required to become a Copyeditor and Proofreader
7.1 Professional Qualifications
7.2 Soft Skills
7.3 Other Skills
Week 8:
Copyediting and Proofreading as a Career
8.1 Types of Copyediting & Proofreading works Available
8.2 How to Copy Edit or Proofread Your Own Work?
8.3 How to start your own proofreading or copyediting business
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I am an author, fiction content writer and do a lot of writing work, but my writing work gets a perfect finish after it goes through my Copy Editory and Proofreader, Ms. Pinky Dass of Editor's Horizon.
She really knows to copyedit and make the content look fresh and readable.
Great work!!!
Wish her a Great journey ahead as Copyeditor and Proofreader.
Manikant Mishra
Author
Shouvik Roy
Author
COURSE STARTS–June 25, 2021
COURSE PRICE–Rs. 4999/-
COURSE PRICE–Rs. 999/-
(If paid before June 15, 2021)