NewProofreading and Editing

Proofreading seeks to eliminate errors from our writing. Editing seeks to improve our writing’s style. The two sets of skills overlap. In this intensive and practical course, you’ll work on both. The result? You’ll feel confident that your writing will be well-presented and readable.

Key Training Features

Who Can Attend

Learning Outcomes

Key Training Features

The course is intensely practical. We use a set of exercises to demonstrate a range of proofing activities. Optional sessions are available, on proofreading transcripts, and on using proofreading marks.

Editing is the process of improving the style of our writing. We develop a strategic approach to editing, working on paragraphs, sentences, and words, in that order. We explore methods of evaluating and measuring readability, as well as online tools for improving grammar, punctuation and style.

The course also includes a number of opportunities for Q&A sessions, so that delegates can explore specific issues or skills relevant to their own work.

Who Can Attend?

This course is suitable for anyone who needs to proofread or edit documents to a high standard. It will be especially relevant for people who produce reports as part of strategic decision-making, who write or edit transcripts of meetings, or who work in publications departments of public sector organisations.

Learning Outcomes

This workshop enables you to proof and edit to a high standard. In particular, you’ll leave the workshop able to:

• Find spelling errors more effectively;
• Eliminate repeated words and insert missing words;
• Use punctuation accurately;
• Use bullet points properly;
• Improve your grammar and syntax;
• Use capital letters correctly;
• Construct effective paragraphs;
• Produce readable and well sequenced sentences;
• Choose the words that work; and
• Use technology to help you proof and edit.

The workshop involves close individual work.  For this reason:

• Numbers must not exceed eight;
• Post-course coaching is available if required.

The above training can be completely customised fit your exact organisational requirements.  This means you can add your own specific work examples and case studies which makes the learning even more relevant and effective.