Who is this course for?
Those who are new to subbing as well as more experienced subs looking to extend their abilities into the more creative editorial processes involved in rewriting.
As befits the topic, Sub-editing is very technical in nature and closely focused on the skills of the craft, such as:
- readability, accuracy, consistency, and journalistic flair
- how to ensure that writing is concise and clear, with thoughts focused, sentences sharpened, ambiguities and redundancies removed, grammar and syntax sorted, and the structure and story-line sustained
- the technical points likely to crop up under the heading of house style, from the form of dates and proper names to business and scientific terminology.
Peter Gillman Training 