25.6.19
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Structural Editing Standards

Identify your strengths and gaps, learn to work to industry standards, and gain advanced knowledge and practice in structural and developmental editing with the support of an expert structural editor. As part of the Professional Editing Standards Certificate program, this course explores what is expected of editors who perform structural/substantive editing. Course topics include additions, deletions, reordering and recasting, working with supplemental textual and visual elements, permissions, working with authors, and structural/substantive editing of fiction and non-fiction.

Skills / Knowledge

  • Structural/substantive editing
  • Developmental editing
  • Manuscript editing
  • Content editing
  • Revise, reorder and restructure text
  • Professional structural editorial standards
  • Communicate effectively about editorial changes
  • Fiction and nonfiction structural/substantive editing
  • Positioning, and editing of visual and textual elements

Issued on

June 23, 2023

Expires on

Does not expire