Editing Your Manuscript

Online Editing Course

🎬Unit 1 – Lesson 1 – getting ready for editing (self edit before employing professionals)

• Lesson 2 🎬Different types of editing – copy editing/line editing and developmental editing and proof reading
• Lesson 3 🎬Assembling your tools – grammarly, red pens, dictation mode

🎬Unit 2  – Lesson 4- copyediting

• Unit 2 – 🎬 Punctuation
• Semicolon
• comma –  Pdf on Oxford Comma
• Dash/M dash/N dash – PDF Hyphens, the N Dash, and the M Dash
• Parenthesis  pdf
•  Quotation Marks (1)  pdf
• Quotation marks single vs double Quotation marks
• Exclamation point
• Interrobang pdf
• Ellipse pdf
• Terminal punctuation pdf
• Unit 2 – Lesson 5- 🎬Spelling
  • Homonyms
  • Typos

• Unit 2 -Lesson 6- 🎬Grammar
• Personal Pronouns pdf

• Split infinitive pdf

• Unit 2 – Lesson 7- capitalization
• 🎬Proper nouns & terms

• Italics/quotation marks pdf
• Titles of books

• Unit 2 – Lesson 8 – Consistency 
• Numbers, time
• 1-10 written out pdf

• American VS British pdf

🎬Unit 3 – story editing

• Unit 3 – Lesson 9 – 🎬Consistency of tense/point of view
• Unit 3 -Lesson 10- 🎬Character names

• Unit 3 -Lesson 11 – 🎬Word usage/overuse

🎬Unit 4 -Lesson 12 –  format editing

• Double space after a period – need PDF
• Formatting Quotes
• Block Quotes