Record style preferences, improve consistency, and signal your editorial professionalism
This fully customizable style-sheet template will improve your efficiency and consistency, and help you demonstrate professionalism when editing and proofreading fiction.
By the time you’ve completed the training, you'll have a done-for-you style-sheet template that works for any editor regardless of location. You’ll also understand:
- the difference between style guides and style sheets
- why you should record inconsistency too
- how style sheets help editors and clients
- what to include in a style sheet
- when to populate your style sheet
- how to support style enforcement with software
- how to customize the course style-sheet template.
Course curriculum
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1Introduction
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2Module 1: Style, style guides and style sheets
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3Module 2: Recording deliberate inconsistency
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4Module 3: Why build a style sheet?
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5Module 4: What to include in a style sheet
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6Module 5: Populating the style sheet
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7Module 6: Supporting style enforcement with PerfectIt
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8Module 7: Customizing the course style-sheet template
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9Style-sheet template and sample
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10Course books and booklets
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11Tutorials: Designing and setting up a cover page
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12Coupons and discounts
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13Music credits