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Editorial

Editorial courses are the mainstay of the PTC’s offering, our bestselling and most popular courses. They are designed for editors and freelancers at all stages of their editorial journey, from those new to the industry to more experienced staff.

Along with core editorial skills training, we also offer copyright, marketing, project-management, and strategy courses, reflecting the varied role of editors working in publishing today.

For more information about any of these courses, or if you have a suggestion for a course that you don’t see listed here, please email .

A course that focuses on the more complex issues of the craft.
Gain the tools, techniques and confidence needed to excel in any negotiation setting. Ideal for more senior or experienced negotiators with several years' experience.
A masterclass for those who want to apply their existing proofreading skills to challenging texts and learn advanced decision-making strategies.
The ideal course for anyone who needs to know about rights and licensing: in the digital environment it’s more important than ever to know who has the rights to content and who can exploit it.
Explore when, where and how smart copywriting can boost the performance of your book marketing projects.
Learn how to complete editorial projects on time and on budget.
This practical course introduces the role of editing and proofreading content in any business.
This short course will look at some of the core issues relating to grammar and punctuation.
This course demonstrates the full potential of Adobe Acrobat’s mark-up tools and provides tips to instantly improve your working practices
This entry-level course offers a thorough introduction to the key publishing skills of copy-editing and proofreading.
This workshop is for editors who have to undertake a stylistic line edit of a manuscript or text.
This one-day course covers all aspects of producing graphic novels, from ideas and concepts through to quality control and sensitivity reads.
Take your copy-editing and proofreading skills to the next level and learn how to deal with the trickiest editorial challenges.
An intensive course on competitive strategy for commissioning editors with at least two years' experience.
A course that helps editors rewrite text and restructure pieces of writing, while retaining the author's voice and key messages.
Discover vital ways to make digital content more readable, searchable and findable, using up-to-the-minute research.
Discover vital ways to make digital content more readable, searchable and findable, using up-to-the-minute research.