EDIT330 - Structural Editing
Course Description
Structural editing is the process of assessing and organizing or reorganizing material to improve its flow, completeness, cohesion, and suitability to the audience, medium, and purpose. These are areas that involve complex interrelated abstract concepts requiring human reasoning and judgement that AI tools struggle to replace.
In this course, you will develop the skills to successfully conduct a structural edit by working through practical examples and discussing various editorial issues and solutions. Topics we cover in this course include considering audience needs, structural analysis and revision, working with visual elements, addressing legal concerns (e.g., plagiarism and libel), and communicating with writers.
This course is based on a general understanding of structural editing as it relates to content, and some examples address structural editing for fiction.
The final assignment for this course is due one week after the course ends.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Editing Certificate : Required Courses