Course Objectives

This two-day course will help editors gain professional skills to produce a good publication or content. Participants will learn the concept of copyediting. This includes spotting spelling and punctuation errors, addressing grammar problems, ensuring consistent style, striving for accuracy, preparing style sheets and marking up a manuscript. Discussions and exercises will be based on non-fiction excerpts.

What will I learn?

By the end of the course, you will be able to do the following:

• Understand the responsibilities of the copy editor
• Describe the stages in the editorial process
• Copyedit a simple document
• Estimate how long it will take to copy edit a document
• Identify a copyediting checklist of common errors
• Follow an editorial style and develop style sheets
• Revising an edit using Microsoft Word editor tool

Instructional hours: 14

Duration: 2 days

How will I learn?

• Discussions
• Group work
• Class exercises
• Reading assignments
• Case Studies

Registration:
Begins March 1

Payment Details:
Fee: N80,000.

Bank Account Details:

Name: Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria.

Bank: Sterling Bank

Account Number:0068963191