<p>Copy editing makes a good publication better. A copy editor can improve any document by eliminating errors, addressing grammar problems, and ensuring consistent style. This course is for people who ...

<p>Is editing the career for you?</p> <p> Through course reading, exercises, and assignments, we will introduce you to the roles and responsibilities of editors, as well as the knowledge and skills ...

By Anne Glover, Assistant Managing Editor/Copy Desk, St. Petersburg Times To be a copy editor is to tackle one of the toughest – and sometimes most thankless – jobs in the newsroom.

But whether I like it or not, copy editing for the Daily Bruin has forced me to acknowledge those mistakes, to hold myself accountable for them and to do my best to learn from them and then move on.

To someone not involved in copy editing, it may seem like a tiresome, time-consuming, overlooked job that couldn’t possibly be enjoyable, especially when compared to the other sections of the paper, ...

The Times’s standards editor, Philip B. Corbett, invites readers to correct grammatical errors in recent New York Times articles.