Study Technical Editing for Your Editing or Writing Career

This course covers basic editorial concepts and technique necessary to function as a technical editor.

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What will I learn in this technical-editing course?

This technical-editing course offers you these essential technical editing topics:

• Role of the technical editor on the documentation team
• Grammar, usage, punctuation review
• Traditional hardcopy markup
• Electronic editing with track-change functions
• Copyediting: classic usage issues
• Copyediting: punctuation
• Type code markup
• Substantive editing: document-level problems, page design
• Stylesheets and style guides
• Editing for internationalization & localization
• Editing for online information accessibility
• Writer–editor interaction (freelance or within an organization)

What technical-editing study resources are available?

You use links, videos and transcripts of those videos to learn these tasks, e-mail your instructor when you have questions, and send your work to the instructor for review.

Register for this technical-editing course!

Can I see some example units for this technical-editing course?

Editing for Internationalization & Localization

Substantive Editing—Document-Level Problem

Can I have a look at the syllabus?

Technical Editing

What are the grade possibilities in this technical-editing course?

Your instructor can write a document confirming which units you completed and evaluating any original project creation and writing you did in the course. In addition to sending you this document, your instuctor can send this document to your current or prospective employers.

If you are interested in letter, number, or pass/fail grade, contact admin@mcmassociates.io

What does this technical-editing course cost?

• McMurrey Associates: $95 U.S.
• Two choices:
  • The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz, ISBN: 978-0520306677 (~$30)
  or
  
  • The Copyeditor's Handbook and Workbook: The Complete Set Amy Einsohn and Marilyn Schwartz, ISBN: 978-0520306677 (~$42)
• Chicago Manual of Style ($44 US used)
• Garner's Modern American Usage ($21 US Kindle)
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary ($12 US)

Check your local library for these titles.

How does this technical-editing course work?

• You have 93 days to complete the units of this technical-editing course.
• You are welcome to work ahead of the schedule you see on your schedule page for this technical-editing course. If you foresee needing extra time, contact admin@mcmassociates.io
• No refunds will be granted after the third day that you have access to this course.
• Unless results are automatic, your instructor will review, comment on, and return your work within three days of receipt. Expect an e-mail confirmation that your instructor has received your work.
• Your instructor is available many hours per week to answer your questions and provide other help.
• The topics in this technical-editing course are the most important at beginning and intermediate levels. You can request units on other topics; your instructor will consider adding them.
• Your instructor will gladly provide you with a letter describing the quality of your work in this technical-editing course.
• Your instructor will make reasonable efforts to ensure your success in this technical-editing course but can make no guarantees concerning your writing or career success outside of this course.

Register for this technical-editing course!

How do I register and when do I start?

1. Click the registration link just above. Once we receive your payment for this course, you receive a link in which you select a start date. Your schedule is then set up for you with due dates starting 3 days from the start date you selected.
2. For each unit:
   1. you do some reading, watch some videos to learn concepts and procedures for that unit. (You can skip units for whatever reason, but if you need a recommendation, your instructor will mention those omissions.)
   2. Use whichever software you prefer.
   3. you then practice the concepts and procedures of that unit. The videos show you step by step how to do the practice work for that unit.
   4. you send the practice work to your instructor, who reviews and comments, and if necessary explains revisions needed. You repeat the revision–review cycle until you get it right. (You can choose not to revise—it's your course, your money.)

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