What you will learn in Writing and Editing: Revising Course
- Professional revision strategies for clarity and impact
- Structural editing techniques
- Sentence-level polishing methods
- Audience adaptation during revisions
- Collaborative editing processes
- Style consistency enforcement
- Final proofreading best practices
Program Overview
Revision Foundations
⏱️ 2 weeks
- Covers the difference between editing and revising, macro/micro revision approaches, and creating revision checklists.
- Includes document diagnostics exercises.
Structural Revising
⏱️ 2 weeks
- Focuses on organization, argument flow, and evidence evaluation.
- Features outline-revision mapping techniques.
Stylistic Refinement
⏱️ 2 weeks
- Teaches concision strategies, active voice conversion, and rhythm improvement.
- Includes before/after sentence makeovers.
Final Polishing
⏱️ 2 weeks
- Examines proofreading techniques, formatting consistency, and reader testing methods.
- Includes peer review workshops.
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Job Outlook
- Professional value: Essential for writers/editors
- Salary potential: Editors earn 50K100K
- Industry demand: 5% growth for editing roles
- Certification benefit: Recognized by publishing associations
Specification: Writing and Editing: Revising
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FAQs
- Learn to become a better reader of your own writing, honing empathy and clarity.
- Apply the E-D-I-T framework to structure your revision process effectively.
- Learn to identify and remove unnecessarily precise (or “uselessly accurate”) information that clutters your writing.
- Practice presenting data and statistics more clearly and compellingly.
- Build feedback loops that help you decide what to cut, keep, or enhance during revision.
- No prior experience is required—the course is labeled Beginner level.
- If you’ve taken earlier courses in the Good with Words specialization, this is the final, revision-focused installment.
- Exercises are hands-on and supportive—great for writers at any stage.
