Intermediate Copyediting for Fiction

Description

$100 (Members: $90) | How to copyedit fiction | 4 weeks | self-paced | Intermediate

This class picks up where Beginning Copyediting for Fiction leaves off. It assumes you know the basics of using The Chicago Manual of Style to make editorial decisions, how to write editorial queries, and how to write (and use) a style sheet.

You’ll dig deeper into the differences between light, medium, and heavy copyedits, and you’ll get practice doing all three.

You’ll learn how to do more sentence-level editing to address awkward or unclear sentences without affecting the author’s voice.

And you’ll practice all three levels of copyediting.

You will need a copy of:

• The Chicago Manual of Style, Eighteenth Edition or access to the online version
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition or access to the online version
• And you may also wish to purchase Amy J. Schneider’s The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction, but you will not need to have it to do the work required in this class

This class covers American English copyediting standards. Punctuation, usage, and spelling can be very different in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and other areas where English is widely used.

Each week’s lesson includes an answer key so that you can assess your progress.

Prerequisite: Beginning Copyediting for Fiction

The class is entirely online and asynchronous. Go at your own pace.