Course Description
Learning and honing business writing skills can have a positive impact on an individual’s career advancement. Professional quality writing improves productivity and the ability of all functional areas to work together, particularly in an increasingly global workplace where collaboration is the norm.
This practical course introduces the role of editing and proofreading content in any business. It has been developed to meet the needs of all organizations that generate and prepare copy for presentation or publication in digital or print formats. The course explains what needs to be done, and why, and the basics of marking up on paper and working on-screen.
What Do Participants Learn?
- Understand The Editorial Process From Start To Finish
- Identify And Fix Ambiguity, Poor Grammar And Structure
- Achieve Consistency Through A House Style
- Communicate Effectively And Knowledgeably With Clients, Writers, Designers, Programmers, And Any Other Stakeholders.
- Recognize The Decision-making Process Of Editorial Writing
- Identify Different Writing Styles Between Editorials, Columns, And Reviews
Who Should Attend?
- Junior Level Employees
- Senior Level Employees
- Administrators
- Managers
- Anyone Interested In The Topic
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One: What Does An Editor Do?
- What Does Editorial Content Mean Today?
- Overview Of Editing, Proof-editing, And Editing For The Web
- Differences Between Editing And Proofreading
- Task-oriented Editorial Strategy
- Editorial Structures
- Creating Trust With Technical Documents
- Technical Communication
- Writing Training Materials
- Writing Step-by-step Instructions For Elearning
- Writing Voiceover Scripts For Elearning
- Writing Quizzes, Tests, And Polls
- Technical Writing For The Media
- Technical Writing For Translation
- Technical Writing For Websites
- Compelling Case Studies
Section Two: Business And Government Writing: Getting The Message Across And Fixing The Words
- Organization And Structure
- Clarity
- Grammar And Punctuation
- Plain English
- Business Writing
- Grammar Refresher
- Production Management
- Legal Considerations
Section Three: Consistency And Style
- Great Editorial Pieces
- Research Skills
- Pre-course Exercise
- Qualitative Approaches To Information Gathering
- Simplifying Complexity
- Consistency And House Style
- Global Changes And Find And Replace
Section Four: Editing
- Introduction To Editing
- Copyediting
- Proofreading
- Technical Editing
- Scientific Editing
- Substantive Editing
- Supervising Writers
- Project Management
- Quality Control For Documents And Publications
- Intensive Review Of Grammar
- Strategies For Editing On Paper And On Screen
Section Five: Ways Of Working
- Proofreading On Paper And On Pdf
- Communicating With Clients, Authors And Other Stakeholders
- Consolidation And Discussion.
- The Branded Narrative Voice
- The Future Of Technical + Editorial Content