The course content addresses the following topics:
- Recommended references and resources
- House style guides
- Typical terms used in copy-editing and proofreading (typos, transpositions, bias-free language, etc.)
- The editorial process and different editing roles
- Defining copy-editing
- Defining proofreading
- Readability and plain language
- Common mistakes
- Text organisation
- Working to a brief
- Maintaining a style sheet
- Querying content-related mistakes
- Identifying and correcting spelling, punctuation, grammar, and formatting errors in texts
- Proofreading symbols
- Proofreading hard-copy texts
- Working as a copy editor or proofreader
- Long-form editing tasks