Learn how to make text more readable and improve your English writing skills with this free online copyediting course. This basic copyediting course provides the skills you need to become a copyeditor or freelance writer. We explain how to revise text and swiftly check documents for language errors, authenticate facts and improve readability. Writing is often a collaborative exercise so we identify the communication skills you will use while copyediting articles, books and journals. Sign up to master English grammar and improve your writing and editing skills.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 188965 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Describe the best practices used to produce highly readable, entertaining and error-free text • Explain how to swiftly find mistakes in a document • Identify the roles and obligations of a copy-editor • Outline how to create a client brief that is easily understood • Recognise how to eliminate inappropriate content from a document • Describe how to confirm the authenticity of written facts and verify sources • Discuss the processes required to perform contract copyediting • Explain how to detect plagiarism and copyright violations in a document • List effective methods for acquiring clients as a freelancer |
| Course Code | 5198 |

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