Your Editing Career Launched

Welcome to the Course!

Mindset and Motivation for Freelancers

Time Management and Planning

Business Planning 101

Establishing Your Freelance Business 101

General Course Information

Certificates of Completion and Participation

Pre-Course Survey

General Resources

Referencing Guides

Suggested Reading

Alternative Preliminary Learning Stage

Welcome to Module 1: Grammar

PowerPoint Slides for Module 1: Grammar

Unit 1: The Sentence; Unit 2: The Functions in a Clause

Unit 3: Independent & Dependent Clauses; Unit 4: Phrases; Unit 5: Conjunctions

Unit 6: The Four Sentence Structures; Unit 7: Nouns; Unit 8: Pronouns

Unit 8.1: Which versus That—Additional Lecture

Unit 8.2: Which versus That—Discussion on Answers to Exercise

Unit 9: Adjectives; Unit 10: Adverbs; Unit 11: Prepositions

Unit 12: Verbs; Unit 13: Auxiliary Verbs

Unit 14: Quotation Marks

Unit 14.1: Explanatory Video on Punctuating Quotations

Unit 15: The Hyphen, the En Dash and the Em Dash

Unit 15.1: Additional Lecture on Compound Adjectives

Unit 15.2: Hyphenation—Compound Adjectives

Unit 16: Serial Commas; Unit 17: Colons; Unit 18: Semicolons

Overall Grammar Tests

Discussion on the Answers to the Overall Grammar Test 1

Discussion on the Answers to the Overall Grammar Test 2

Bonus! Gerunds and Participles

Bonus! Gerund Phrases: Question and Answer

Welcome to Module 2: Copyediting

PowerPoint Slides for Module 2: Copyediting

Unit 1: Copyediting Procedure

Unit 2: Levels of Editing

Unit 3: Style Sheets

Unit 4: Find and Replace

Unit 5: Plain English

Unit 6: British, Australian and US English

Unit 7: Vertical and Horizontal Lists

Unit 8: Tables

Unit 9: Numbers and Measurements

Unit 9.1: Numbers—Presenting Digits in Tables

Unit 10: Capitalisation

Unit 11: Shortened Forms

Unit 12: Consistency in Editing

Unit 13: Copyediting Practice

Welcome to Module 3: Formatting

PowerPoint Slides for Module 3: Formatting

Unit 1: Introduction to Formatting

Unit 2: Track Changes

Unit 3: Styles

Unit 4: Tables of Contents

Unit 5: Layout

Unit 6: Formatting Figures

Unit 7: Formatting Tables

Unit 8: Summary

Unit 9: Formatting Exercises

Welcome to Module 4: Referencing

PowerPoint Slides for Module 4: Referencing

Unit 1: The Editor's Role

Unit 2: Intro to Author–Date Referencing

Unit 3: Intro to Notes–Bib Referencing

Unit 4: APA Referencing

Unit 5: Introduction to the Chicago Manual of Style

Unit 6: Chicago (Notes-Bibliography)

Unit 7: Chicago (Author-Date)

Unit 8: Crosschecking Author–Date References

Unit 9: Crosschecking Footnote References

Bonus! Intro to Referencing from the Perspective of an Academic

Bonus! Overview of Referencing

Bonus! The Editor's Role in Referencing—Additional Lecture

Welcome to Module 5: Editing Specialisations

Unit 1: Academic Editing

Unit 2: Corporate and Government Editing

Unit 3: Fiction Editing

Unit 4: Advanced Fiction Editing: Part 1

Unit 4.1: Advanced Fiction Editing: Part 2

Unit 5: Legal Editing and AGLC

Unit 6: Medical and Scientific Editing

Unit 6.1: Medical and Scientific Editing: Part 2

Unit 7: Editing for Conscious and Inclusive Language

Unit 7.1: Editing for Conscious and Inclusive Language: Part 2

Welcome to the Final Module!

Bringing It All Together

Referencing Guides

Bringing It All Together—Answers and Example Edits

Preparation for the IPEd Accreditation Exam

Additional Lecture on Preparing for the IPEd Accreditation Exam (1)

Additional Lecture on Preparing for the IPEd Accreditation Exam (2)

Practice Exam

Final Exam

Personal Branding for Editors

How to Set and Raise Your Prices

How to Sell When You Hate Sales

Creating a Website Using WordPress

Using Social Media to Advertise

Business Planning Workbooks

Templates to Customise and Use for Your Business

Q&A Session on Working as a Freelance Editor

Ergonomics for Editors: Recommendation for Standing Desks

Why Copyeditors Use PCs and not Macs

Miscellaneous Study Materials