ENGL 715 - Technical and Scientific Editing

3 Credit(s)
This course addresses the roles, responsibilities, and practices of an editor. Students learn how to establish effective relationships with authors, edit manuscripts to make them clear to readers or consistent with the policies of an organization, mark copy for typesetters, edit online, and create and use style guides. In addition to editing the printed document, students will also learn to edit online documents and design evaluation strategies.