Editing Boot Camp
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Learn the skills you need to become a professional editor.
- Learn at your own pace and in your own space.
- Get instant, lifetime online access.
- Uses games and quizzes to help you retain what you learn.
- The course author, Scribendi.com, has been in the editing business for more than 18 years.
- Course materials cover everything from editing skills to the business of being an editor.
- This course takes approximately 40 hours to complete.
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Modules
1.1 What is Editing?
1.2 Editing for Content
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1.3 Editing for Style
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1.4 Editing for Form
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1.5 Editing for Clients
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2.1 Editing for Content
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3.1 Concision
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3.2 Word Choice
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3.3 Word Order
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3.4 Voice and Tone
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4.1 Format
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4.2 Grammar
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4.3 Punctuation
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4.4 Usage
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4.5 Spelling
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5.1 Why an ESL Focus?
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5.2 Common ESL Errors
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- 5.2.1 Definite and Indefinite Articles
- 5.2.2 Nouns
- 5.2.3 The Apostrophe
- 5.2.4 Abbreviations and Capitalization
- 5.2.5 Adverbs
- 5.2.6 Adjectives
- 5.2.7 Transitional Phrases and Overwriting
- 5.2.8 Comparatives and Superlatives
- 5.2.9 Modals
- 5.2.10 Third-Person Singular
- 5.2.11 Simple Present
- 5.2.12 Present Continuous and Present Perfect
- 5.2.13 Present Perfect Continuous
- 5.2.14 Simple Past
- 5.2.15 Participles
- 5.2.16 Word Choice
- 5.2.17 Conditional Sentences
- 5.2.18 Reported Speech