Custom Training
Editcetera offers a variety of editorial training opportunities, including workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area, webinars, flex training, and custom training programs.
Do your employees need a tune-up in writing, editing, or proofreading skills? Do you want to develop procedures to help your team work more effectively? We offer customized training in the Bay Area and beyond at competitive rates. Our instructors are happy to work with you to create the program you want.
Convenient, efficient, and effective
Editcetera instructors can meet your training needs on your schedule at your location or online via webinar or video conference.
Copyediting
Do you have staff editors who bypassed traditional training as copyeditors? Writers who occasionally need to copyedit their own work? Office workers responsible for copyediting documents in a rush? Whatever your needs, we can introduce your staff to the tools and techniques of copyediting, from an overview of the basics to a targeted tune-up.
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Depending on your needs, we can provide one-session overviews or multimeeting programs with time in between to practice. Handouts will provide tips and resources.
Proofreading
Strong proofreading skills save time, improve working relationships, and avoid costly and embarrassing errors. Proofreading can be combined with a grammar tune-up and can include customized exercises tailored to the kinds of documents your employees work with every day.
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Writing Skills
Clear, concise communication saves time, improves working relationships, eliminates costly errors, and boosts a company’s professional image. This lively, hands-on training will give your employees the tools they need to improve their basic or advanced writing skills. Participants can practice with customized exercises tailored to the kinds of documents your company works with every day.
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Using a detailed handbook and reference guide, participants can practice new skills in class and collaborate on problem-solving exercises. They’ll acquire a host of tips, tricks, and checklists to help write clean and clear documents, alleviate writer’s block, build confidence, meet deadlines, and represent your organization more professionally.
Grammar and Punctuation
Most employees need to write on the job—even if they never planned to be writers. Those with a strong command of basic grammar and mechanics can communicate more effectively and gain respect. Whether you’d like a brush-up on basic grammar or examination of trickier issues that can challenge even experienced editors, one or more focused sessions can do a lot to improve communications within your company and boost your professional image.
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You choose how much time you want to spend and specific issues you want addressed. Provide samples of company documents for analysis and improvement, or ask the instructor to address issues using common examples.
Electronic Editing with Microsoft Word
Training available in Word 2010 or Word 2003 for PC
Want to streamline your organization’s editorial process? We offer expert shortcuts, tools, and tricks for working more effectively on-screen and banishing common annoyances of Microsoft Word, like those pesky automated features.
In a lecture, computer lab, or webinar format tailored to a range of skills from basic to high level, we’ll demonstrate how to make electronic editing faster, smarter, and more fun.
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A detailed reference guide of electronic editing techniques will reinforce new skills. You won’t believe how much your company’s computers can do!
Other areas of interest by request
Let us know what you need, and we’ll do our best to help.
“Your instructors are personable, know their materials, provide excellent feedback, and are good at engaging their audience.”