Short courses (online)
editandtrain & McGillivray and Linnegar Associates (MLA)
Website URL:Â Editandtrain contact: kenimcgill@gmail.com
Course co-ordinator: Ken McGillivray
Course facilitator: John Linnegar
- Online course: Copy-editing and proofreading
Duration: 18 contact hours - Online course: Advanced copy-editing and proofreading
Duration: 15 contact hours - Online course: Editing academic texts: the essential fundamentals
Duration: 18 contact hours - Online course: Copy-editing and proofreading examinable texts
Duration: 12 contact hours - Online course: Grammar for editors online
Duration: 10 sessions in your own time
University of Stellenbosch (SUN)
Website URL: Postgraduate Short Courses
Course coordinators: Maret Blom de Wet and Dr Amanda Marais
- Course: Academic editing
Course duration: short course (2.5 days) or semester course (12 weeks) - Course: Editing
Course duration: 2 semesters
Degree Course University of Pretoria (UP)
Website URL: https://www.up.ac.za/information-science/article/1821944/bis-publishing
- Course: BIS Publishing [Bachelor’s in Information Science with a specialisation in Publishing]
Duration: full-time study
(also BIS (Hons), M(IS) or a PhD (Publishing): part-time or full-time study, online with/without classes)
Course coordinator: Prof Beth le Roux
University of Pretoria (UP)
Website URL:Â Postgraduate Short Courses
Course co-ordinator: Dr I Noomé
- Course: Editing Principles and Practice
Duration: First semester course (6 months)
SA Writers College
Website URL: Copy-editing and Proofreading Course
Course co-ordinator: Di Smith
- Course: Copy-editing and Proofreading
Duration: maximum 8 months
University of Cape Town (UCT) Get Smarter
Website URL: Copy-editing UCT
Course co-ordinator: Dr Martha Evans
- Course: Copy-editing
Duration: 10 weeks
University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
Website URL:Â Copy-editing and Proofreading
- Course: Editing for Professionals
Duration: 10 weeks
Note: These courses have come to our attention from various sources and are listed here for members’ convenience. However, PEG cannot be held responsible for the consistent quality of the courses listed. Members should do their investigation.
Other courses
Cadman Training Courses
Helping editors everywhere to save time and improve quality
https://www.cadmantraining.com/
About Cadman Training
Hilary Cadman, a technical editor and trainer based in Australia, has a suite of courses aimed at fellow editors – over 1000 editors have benefited from Hilary’s training. Using a mix of videos, exercises, quizzes and comprehensive notes, the online courses are easy to complete, and lifetime access means you can return to the materials whenever you like.
Courses and webinars on offer
PerfectIt courses – PerfectIt is a valuable tool for editors that quickly pays for itself. Cadman Training’s introductory course will quickly get you up to speed with what PerfectIt can do and how you can best use it in your work.
Tools webinars – Cadman Training has short webinars on various editing tools – PhraseExpress (a textexpander), Editor’s Toolkit Plus and ProWritingAid. These informative sessions give you a chance to “try before you buy” for these tools.
MS Word courses – Cadman Training offers:
- a course on Word styles and templates (with versions for Mac and PC) that runs 2 or 3 times a year – the course will build your confidence in Word so that you can work more effectively with complex documents
- mini-courses on using multilevel lists, and autonumbering of tables and figures (again, with versions for PC and Mac) – these courses are available year round.
EndNote course – Cadman Training offers a course in EndNote, to give you the confidence to work with authors who use this reference management program.
Degree course
University of Pretoria (UP)
Website URL:Â https://www.up.ac.za/information-science/article/1821944/bis-publishing
- Course: BIS Publishing [Bachelor’s in Information Science with a specialisation in Publishing]
Duration: full-time studyÂ
(also BIS (Hons), M(IS) or a PhD (Publishing): part-time or full-time study, online with/without classes)
Course coordinator: Prof Beth le Roux
Note: These courses have come to our attention from various sources and are listed here for members’ convenience. However, PEG cannot be held responsible for the consistent quality of the courses listed. Members should do their own investigation.