Date: Monday 3 and Thursday 6 October 2022
Time: 10 am to 12 pm

Our regular tutor Cathy Tingle will deliver this course online over two days, with a total of 4 hours of online time, including short exercises for people to do on their own. 

The online delivery platform is Zoom which many people will be familiar with.

About the course
This course (previously called Editing for Non-publishers) is aimed at people who don't work in a publishing house but who work, or want to work, with documents that will be published in some form - for example newsletters, brochures, handbooks or websites.

Discussion includes:

• Principles of copy-editing and how they can help any document
• Using structure to make things clearer
• What to check and how to check it
• Achieving consistency in documents that have a number of contributors
• Common problems in text, and how to fix them
• Easy tips and tricks that professional copy-editors use.

Delegates will be asked to send in two samples of the sort of text they work on, or hope to work on, for tutor feedback and advice during the course.

Who should attend
Anyone who produces documents and would like to improve them.

Feedback on this course
‘Great course – so useful. Lots of examples. The personal feedback was very valuable too.’ (Delegate, May 2021)

To find out more about the course and tutor, visit the Publishing Scotland website.

FEES

The fee for Publishing Scotland and CIEP members is £100+VAT (£120 including VAT). 

The fee for non-members is £135+VAT (£162 including VAT). Discount of 25% applies for BookMachine members: code available from BookMachine.

Booking will close at midnight on Wednesday 28 September 2022.