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Take Your Copyediting Skills to the Next Level

 

This twelve week workshop will provide training for aspiring copy editors in order to give them practical and marketable workplace skills. As a student in this certification course, you will progress from the fundamentals of grammar, form and composition to advanced copyediting skills.

 

•  Fundamentals of punctuation and grammar •  Guidelines for form and composition •  How to write using style guides •  How to put grammar rules into action!

 

•  Those interested in pursuing a career as a copy editor. •  Creative writers who want to learn the skills to self-edit. •  Teachers who want to brush up on their grammar skills.

 

•  "ery valuable course for anyone who wants to improve his own editing skills as well as to edit for or to teach others." -MP •  "I enjoyed taking the course. Kim is great!" -RS

 

January 4, 2018 - March 29, 2018   $799.99   Sign me up »

 

Instructor: Kim Catanzarite Kim is a freelance copy editor who has over twenty years' experience in the editorial field. She has edited hundreds of nonfiction and fiction titles in a vast variety of genres from how-to to history to writing guides and commercial novels, as well as magazines and newspapers.

 

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