Proofreading for Editors

Become a more accurate proofreader in just one day! Whether you are a beginner or just a little rusty, you will benefit from Proofreading for Editors. As you work through a series of exercises, your experienced tutor will help you to improve your skills and increase your confidence. You'll gain valuable practical experience as well as guidance on commonly used terms.

This popular course will give you:

• confidence in proofreading
• familiarity with proofreaders' marks
• an understanding of the terms used
• an appreciation of the costs involved.

Programme

• Functions of a proofreader
• Methods of working
• Analysis of your pre-course exercises
• Commonly used terms: ens, ems, points, picas
• Different types of proof
• Relative costs of corrections
• Final discussion and queries.

Online training

This course includesonline training and support.

Who will benefit from this course?

Anyone wishing to improve their proofreading skills and learn a more formalised approach to proofreading.

Your tutors

Your tutor will be Gillian Clarke or Melanie McRae.

Gillian Clarke worked in-house before becoming a freelance editor. A founder member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders, she was its first Training Co-ordinator and was responsible for setting up its training programme. Gillian continues to teach for the SfEP, and is a regular tutor for The Publishing Training Centre. She is also the senior author of Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning.

Melanie McRae works as a freelance editorial consultant in publishing. She has experience in working on both printed matter and electronic information. She works closely as part of in-company editorial teams, briefing writers, designers and researchers, and other freelance editors and proofreaders. Melanie is also a qualified secondary school teacher and has experience in marketing. She has worked successfully with both English speakers and delegates who do not use English as a first language. She is an experienced writer and trainer and develops, writes and delivers training packages to a number ofUKand international clients. Melanie runs her own limited company, EDT (Editorial, Design and Training services, Ltd).

We also offer Basic Proofreading by Distance Learning andProofreading Skills, which is aimed at those not working in the book publishing industry.

Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.