PROOFREADING AND EDITING COURSE FREELANCE PROOFREADERS & WRITERS

COURSE CONTENT

1. You are allocated a personal tutor.
2. Several practice exercises to complete.
3. There are 10 exercises to complete and submit to your tutor for evaluation.
4. If your tutor feels that you would benefit from completing additional exercises, then these will be provided.
5. All submitted exercises are checked by your personal tutor and feedback is provided.
6. Your progress is continually monitored and evaluated by your course tutor as you work your way through the course.
7. Your personal tutor will be available to answer your queries via e-mail.
8. Advice and ongoing support is always available.
9. Upon successful completion of the course you will be issued with a certificate of your competence.

The Internet communication machine has created many opportunities. You can work from the comfort of your own home, for clients from all over the world. The course provided concentrates on proofreading in this medium ie documents received via e-mail or by disk. Hard copy proofreading is not covered on this course but we do itemise Proofreading Marks and Abbreviations for reference purposes. We concentrate on proofreading and editing for commercial clients, small businesses and the individual.

The bulk of the course is information/reference based. The tutoring side of the tutorial comes into play during the exercises. The exercises are varied, encompassing many different projects eg proofreading web sites, extracts from novels, manuals, documents, etc. Feedback is given personally on every submitted exercise, together with appropriate advice. Additionally, every effort is made to provide ongoing support as and when required, even when you have completed the tutorial. We are always here to help. The course length, to an extent, depends on how much time you put into the course yourself. From experience, the average student takes a minimum of 10 weeks to complete the course. You'll be supplied with exercises until both parties are happy that you can undertake projects on your own.

A certificate is issued upon successful completion of the course.

So, to summarise, if you are someone that wants to develop a career as a freelance proofreader and/or editor, working from your pc at home, receiving projects via e-mail, then this is the course for you.

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To give you that helping hand in getting started as a freelancer, upon successful completion of your course you will be able to advertise yourself as a freelancer for one year on either www.freelance-proofreaders.co.uk or www.freelance-writers.co.uk for free!

A GUIDE TO WORKING FREELANCE

If you are already a freelancer, or are considering working freelance, then the Working Freelance guide is a valuable aid. The guide is packed full of advice, tips and useful links to help you be a successful freelancer and operate a successful business (please note this is not a course). Topics include:

Working Freelance is provided free with any of our tutorials and cannot be purchased separately.

Freelance Proofreaders offer this Tutorial in two formats - you decide which one suits you best:

1. Online Tutorial
Everything is undertaken via the Freelance Proofreaders web site, online.

2. CD
The course is now available on CD. All exercises need to be submitted to your course tutor by e-mail.

If you would like to enrol on this course, or view pricing, please CLICK HERE.

If you have any queries, whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact us.

This course has been approved by LiteraryAgent.co.uk.