This course includes written lectures, mini-quizzes to test your knowledge, grammar exercises, writing assignments to turn in for personalized feedback from your instructor, and a final exam. Upon passing the exam, you will be awarded your certificate.
Please note, the Copyediting Certificate Program takes students through materials also presented in Writer's Digest University's Grammar & Mechanics, Form & Composition, Introduction to Copyediting, and Professional Copyediting.
Session One: Phrases and Clauses
Session Two: Sentence Structure and Sentence Form
Session Three: Paragraph Structure
Session Four: Paragraph Form and Polishing
Session Five: What Does a Copy Editor Do?
Session Six: Tools of the Trade
Session Seven: It’s Not All About Grammar—Going Deeper
Session Eight: Digging In
Session Nine: Making Changes
Session Ten: Editing the News and Working on Book-Length Material
What will you learn?
Who should attend?
Meet the instructor
Kim Catanzarite
Kim Catanzarite is a freelance copy editor who has over thirty years’ experience in the editorial field. Her client list includes Writer’s Digest Books, Random House, Meredith Corporation, Ten Speed Press, and many other American book publishers as well as indie authors. She has edited hundreds of nonfiction and fiction titles in a vast variety of genres from how-to to memoir to writing guides and novels, as well as magazines and newspapers. Kim has been an instructor for Writer’s Digest University since 2015; she teaches three copyediting courses.
Kim’s editing career began in 1989 at a small newspaper in northern New Jersey, where she learned hands-on the process of editing, article writing, layout, and publishing. She also worked for two book-publishing companies—one of the big five in New York City and another smaller publishing house in New Jersey—where she took nonfiction titles from raw manuscript to finished product. After several years on the job, she decided to freelance.
Kim received her B.A. in English from Skidmore College and continued her education at the New York Summer Writers Institute and the Emerson College writing and publishing graduate program. She is an accomplished writer who has published articles in national magazines, such as Better Homes and Gardens and Woman’s Day, and newspapers. Her fiction and poetry has won prizes and appeared in literary magazines.
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