Preparation Course for Certified Professional Editor (CPE)
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Professional editing is essential in ensuring that content is accurate, clear, and engaging, while also respecting the balance between the creator's intent and the audience's needs. The Certified Professional Editor (CPE) course equips participants with comprehensive editing skills across various types of content, including structural editing, stylistic editing, copy editing, and proofreading. With an emphasis on ethical and legal considerations, this course delves into the editorial process, exploring each stage from initial planning to final review. Participants will also learn to apply plain language principles to make content accessible, relevant, and reader-friendly, ensuring adherence to high editorial standards.
Through this five-day intensive training, participants gain hands-on expertise in enhancing content, mastering editorial standards, and effectively collaborating with editorial teams across production stages. This program is ideal for editors, writers, and media professionals looking to deepen their editing capabilities and excel in the publishing industry.
Course Outline
Introduction to Editing
- Definition and purpose of editing
- Discovering types of editing
- Introduction to professional editorial standards and their focus areas
- Discussing error correction and productivity rates
- Understanding editing principles:
- Using conscious language
- Ensure accessibility
- Error-free materials
- Techniques for understanding and considering audience needs
- Discussing legal and ethical considerations in editing
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