Journalists

Editing 2.0

DURING THE COURSE YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

  • edit different types of texts (from social media posts to media texts and books);
  • develop your author’s style and language;
  • work with popular words, slang and anglicisms;
  • practice using imagery in the text, transforming phrases and fixed expressions;
  • correctly abbreviate the text, avoid language stamps and clichés;
  • violate language norms appropriately and use new spelling.

COURSE PROGRAM

  • Organizing text and working with it professionally;
  • Literary editing;
  • Text structure: editorial editing;
  • Lexical level of the text;
  • Syntactic level of the text;
  • Text stylistics and author’s style;
  • Mistakes in the work of professional editors and proofreaders;
  • New media language and how to improve it.

THE COURSE WILL BE USEFUL FOR EVERYONE WHO WORKS WITH TEXTS

  • Editors and proofreaders;
  • Authors of fiction and nonfiction;
  • Copywriters, writers, SMM specialists;
  • Journalists, bloggers, communications specialists.