Proofreading Course

Short course

In London

£ 395 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Location

    London

  • Class hours

    6h

  • Duration

    1 Day

Basic Skills

Learn professional proofreading skills in order to avoid expensive and damaging mistakes.

Our simple and practical course will help you grasp proofreading techniques and teach you British Standards Institution (BSI) mark-up to speed up your work and help you collaborate.

You will learn to seek out and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation errors. You will leave the course with practical templates and worksheets so you can benefit from your skills straight away.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Business Design Centre, 52 Upper Street, Islington, N1 0QH

Start date

On request

About this course

What to expect:
This is an intensive but fun proofreading workshop, limited to eight people. The majority of the day is practical, so you’ll leave with a few hours of technical experience. We will also give you a proofreading guide and worksheets.

Who should attend:
Anybody that writes and publishes copy
PR and marketing professionals
Content marketers
Journalists and editors
Designers and art editors
Front end and app developers

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Subjects

  • Copy Editor
  • Publishing
  • Proofreading
  • Writing Skills
  • Grammar
  • Spelling
  • Punctuation
  • Layout Errors
  • Teamwork
  • Team management
  • Capitalisation
  • Social Skills
  • Interpersonal Communication

Course programme

Course content

Proofreading principles
– Why it’s not the same as editing copy
– Proofreading ‘against copy’
– Proofreading ‘blind’
– How to find errors efficiently
– Working to deadlines

Proofreading essentials
– Grammar and spelling
– Punctuation, spacing and typos
– Arithmetic and numbers
– Checking accuracy
– Layout and typography
– Marking copy and layout errors
– BSI standard proof marks (2005)

Collaboration
– Working with a team and suppliers
– What you should query and how
– Dealing with writers (they have feelings)
– Teach your team the basics

Topics covered
– Subject-verb agreement
– Quotation marks and parentheses
– Abbreviations and acronyms
– Misplaced and dangling participles
– American spellings
– Common misspellings and misuse
– Typing errors, transpositions
– Commas and semicolons
– Hyphens and dashes
– Widows and orphans
– Capitalisation
– End punctuation
– Word spacing
– Homophones
– Word breaks

Proofreading Course

£ 395 + VAT