Instructor: Murugaraj Shanmugam
Duration: 13 weeks
Modules: 4
Skill Level: Beginner
Course overview
“Essentials of Language Editing” is a specialization, a course of courses, to launch you into a successful copyediting career. The course covers the essentials of three important components of copyediting – grammar and style, punctuation, and MS Word. Each module/topic is supplemented with editing practice to provide the aspiring language editor a glimpse of editing. Select candidates may also receive an opportunity to work as interns with us.
Who is this course for?
This is a great course for you if
you aspire to become a language editor
you are a style editor who wants to move ahead in your career
you are a language editor who is looking for a refresher course to reinforce your learning
you are contemplating career change to achieve work–life balance
How is the course delivered?
The course may be accessed via our learning portal, which includes learning material, practice quizzes, and assessments, via self-paced online modules. Discussions are held via an exclusive forum community.
Each week is complete in itself in that the learning week begins with a live session of the topic(s) of the week, followed by practice papers and assessment, and finally editing sample passages of the topic(s) covered in this week. Thus, each topic completes the full cycle of (1) introduction of the concepts, (2) reinforcement through practice, (3) validation through assessments and (4) application through editing samples.
Course Content
Murugaraj Shanmugam
Founder, Editor’s Essentials
Murugaraj Shanmugam has been a copyeditor for nearly 20 years, in most part of which he trained and set up copyediting teams for typesetting companies in India. He has been an independent trainer since 2018 when he founded Editor’s Essentials.
Duration: 1 week
Topics: 10
Quizzes: 14
Skill Level: Basic
