Digital Skills for Editors

Digital Skills for Editors (WCWP-40282)
6 Weeks | $395 | Online
  
Interacting in the digital space is becoming a frequently expected skill for freelance and staff editors. In Digital Skills for Editors, you will learn how to edit text for the particular needs of a website and its design. You will explore the basic terminology and tools in the relationship between text and search engine optimization, and gain a foundational understanding of digital editing best practices with an introduction to user experience and website planning. Your digital editing education is not complete until you have scratched the surface of navigating websites as an editor.
 
What You Will Learn:

• Understand how to navigate, critique and edit for digital.
• Gain the knowledge required for the digital editing space, whether that’s freelance or staff-level.
• Learn the vital skills required to understand digital media and best practices.
• Explore the basics of various types of interactive media—from video to blogs.
• Learn the purpose of cascading style sheets (CSS) and HTML works.
• Acquire skills in readability and searchability.
• Explore editing skills, digital rights, and search engine optimization (SEO) trends.

Quarters Offered: Winter, Summer | Online
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Students must be currently enrolled in, or have completed, Copyediting I (WCWP-40236) or have equivalent experience. If you feel that you have adequate copy editing experience to enroll in this class, please email the department at ahl@ucsd.edu to request approval from the instructor.

Contact: For more information about this course, please email ahl@ucsd.edu.
 

Note: Prerequisite: Students must be currently enrolled in, or have completed, Copyediting I (WCWP-40236) or have equivalent experience. If you feel that you have adaquate copyediting experience to enroll in this class, please email the department at ahl@ucsd.edu to request approval from the instructor.

Course Number: WCWP-40282
Credit: 2.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Copyediting

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1/11/2021 - 2/20/2021

$395

Online

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  152403

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  All instruction and course materials delivered and completed online between the published course start and end dates.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Humphrey, Elizabeth King, Associate manager of corporate communications and a freelance editor, writer, and book designer.

  Elizabeth Humphrey manages internal communications for a global contract research organization where she edits and writes. She freelances for publications and businesses and her credits include pieces for The Writer and Scientific American Mind. Although she has edited for years, Humphrey received her University of Chicago editing certificate in 2011 and a certificate in technical and professional communications in 2012. Her book writing credits include "Idiot's Guide: Gluten-Free Eating" (2014). She teaches Copyediting I and Digitial Skills for Editors for the Copyediting Certificate Program .

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  The Content Advantage (Clout 2.0): The Science of Succeeding at Digital Business Through Effective Content 2nd
  by Colleen Jones
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780135159323

  Web Style Guide (You can purchase a copy of the book or read it for free online at https://webstyleguide.com/index.html.) 4th
  by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton
  ISBN / ASIN: 9780300211658

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  Prerequisite required.
  No refunds after: 1/15/2021.
  1st no meeting date: 1/18/2021.
  2nd no meeting date: 2/15/2021.
  

• NOTE:

  This is an online course.You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date. To login to your course, go to your MyExtension account, select My Courses, select this course and then click the link that appears under Online Provider. Prerequisites for this section are concurrent enrollment or passing grade in Copyediting I (WCWP-40236).

• DATE & LOCATION:

  1/11/2021 - 2/20/2021
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.