Our Editing Skills course teaches you how to manage editing projects and rewrite to polish documents. It contains assignments, practice activities, and written competency exams to help ensure your learning.

Similar to how college classes work, you do your assigned work on your own, then submit it to your instructor, who grades, comments upon, and returns the assignment to you. The instructor will coach you in this way until you master the skills. FYI, your instructor is also available via email or phone.

Course Outline

By attending this course, you will learn how to:

• Edit sentences to make them clear, concise, cohesive, and elegant
• Develop paragraphs that are clearly organized
• Select vocabulary that is accurate and descriptive
• Edit for organization so you can produce documents that readers cannot misunderstand

You also receive specific instruction on how to:

• Prepare for Editing
• Edit to Give the Document Focus
• Edit to Give the Document Cohesiveness
• Edit the Introduction, Format, and Conclusion
• Edit Paragraphs for Focus and Continuity
• Edit Paragraphs for Emphasis and Variety
• Know the Basic Structure of a Sentence
• Build Meaningful Sentences
• Write Effective Sentences
• Add Sentence Variety
• Work with Problem Sentences
• Write Concisely
• Use Precise Words
• Use Clear Words for Concepts

How To Access Your Course:

This course contains 13 lessons and requires approximately 30 hours of study. Complete lessons at your own pace, as long as you finish them within four months from date of registration. Instructions for accessing your course materials, plus your Instructor's contact information, will be emailed to you within two business days of registration.