Almost Everything You Need to Know about Copy Editing and Grammar Skills

Presenter: Moira White
Length: 5 hours
Language: English
Level: Introductory
Type: Informational
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Have you ever paused to wonder whether a comma really should be added before a particular word? or whether you should add a hyphen to a compound? or how to phrase queries to the author?

In this five-part series, you’ll learn how to handle the “four pillars of copy editing”:

1. capitalization;
2. hyphenation;
3. commas, semicolons, and colons; and
4. correct number style.

You’ll also learn about the grammar skills that every copy editor needs to know and about communicating well with your author.

Series schedule

Part 1

• Three short grammar lessons
• Copy editing essentials

Part 2

• Commas, semicolons, and colons

Part 3

• Capitalization

Part 4

• Hyphenation
• Quotations, lists, parentheses and brackets, and ellipsis dots

Part 5

• Number style
• Communicating with the author