A$497
for a limited time only
Duration
6 weeks
Achievements
Certificate of Completion
Access
Indefinite access
Editing Skills for Academics
This specially tailored course for academics will teach you how to edit scholarly writing to ensure it is clear, concise and consistent and can be readily understood by its target audience. In addition, you’ll learn how to correctly prepare your own documents for publication and assist your colleagues and students more quickly and efficiently.
Course Overview
The communication of ideas and research is a fundamental aspect of any academic or research role. Academics are required to not only edit their own work for dissemination and publication but also assist their students and colleagues with manuscripts, papers and grant applications.
This course provides academics and postgraduate students with the core skills needed to edit and format scholarly writing and an understanding of editing principles and best practices (including how to give useful and actionable feedback to students and colleagues).
The aim of this course
Editing Skills for Academics provides academics and postgraduate students with the skills and knowledge required to edit any academic text to ensure it is clear, concise and immaculately presented.
- Give academics and postgraduate students the skills needed to edit and format their own work
- Instil an understanding of editing principles and best practices
- Provide advice for British, Australian and US English
Please note that this course is not for professional editors
Course Outline
Editing Skills for Academics comprises six in-depth lessons covering all key aspects of editing academic texts. It is designed to be completed in six weeks but can be adapted to suit any schedule.
This lesson covers all the vital knowledge required to write perfectly grammatical, clear academic writing.
- Lesson 1A: Grammar Fundamentals
- Lesson 1B: Perfecting Punctuation
- Lesson 1C: British, Australian and US English
- Lesson 1D: Plain English Principles in Scholarly Writing
This lesson covers how to edit an academic text, including best practices and key tools.
- Lesson 2A: The Three Levels of Editing
- Lesson 2B: Best Practice Editing Procedures
- Lesson 2C: Following Style Guides Precisely
- Lesson 2D: The Limitations of Proofreading and Editing Software
This lesson covers everything you need to know to ensure an academic document is ready for publication.
- Lesson 3A: Adhering to Publisher Guidelines
- Lesson 3B: Advanced Find and Replace
- Lesson 3C: Editing Tables and Figures
- Lesson 3D: Giving Useful and Actionable Feedback
This lesson covers all the vital formatting skills required to present academic work perfectly.
- Lesson 4A: Ethical Considerations for Editing Student Work
- Lesson 4B: Headings and Styles
- Lesson 4C: Tables of Contents and Lists of Figures and Tables
- Lesson 4D: Formatting Figures and Tables
This lesson covers everything you need to know to ensure your referencing is complete, correct and consistent.
- Lesson 5A: Understanding Referencing
- Lesson 5B: Following Referencing Guides Precisely
- Lesson 5C: How to Find and Correct the Most Common Errors
- Lesson 5D: The Limitations of Referencing Software
This lesson consolidates everything you have learned in the previous lessons to give you the confidence to edit any academic text.
- Lesson 6A: How to Find the Errors in Your Own Work
- Lesson 6B: Where to from Here
- Lesson 6C: Advanced Grammar Practice
- Lesson 6D: Advanced Editing Practice
Course Presenter
Dr Lisa Lines
Former Director & Head Editor
PhD (History), Flinders University
PhD (Creative Writing), University of Adelaide
This course is presented by Dr Lisa Lines (our former Director and Head Editor). Dr Lines is a historian, author and academic editor. As one of Australia’s most experienced specialist academic editors, Dr Lines has edited thousands of academic documents during an editing career spanning nearly two decades. Dr Lines has extensive experience training professional editors, including developing Your Editing Career Launched—our comprehensive online course for professional editors.
I came to the course with a bit of editing and proofreading experience, thinking already knew the basics—but I didn’t know what I didn’t know The course taught me practical, professional skills and insider editing tips that have helped me take my work to a new
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