Proofreading PDFs: A complete guide for editors

How to enrol

To enrol, you need to click on the Add to Cart button on this page. You will be asked to register (if you have not already done so). You will, at that point, be asked to pay by credit/debit card.

Important note: You will have access to the course for eight months from the date of your enrolment.

Refunds: Fees for e-Learning Modules are non-refundable, as immediate access is available to all the relevant course material.

What is included?

Course Materials

Full access to the PTC's online learning platform where you will find all the materials you need to complete the course. Where relevant, downloadable materials are provided so you can practise your new skills as many times as you need to feel confident that you have mastered them.

Certificate

Upon successfully completing the course you will receive a completion certificate from PTC.

Who is it for?

This module is for editors and proofreaders who have completed initial training and are looking to go more in depth to this specific topic, but who are not yet very experienced.

About the author(s)

Christina Thomas has previously developed and delivered courses for the PTC and the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), and bespoke courses for clients including Westminster City Council and the Singapore Book Council. 

She developed the PTC’s Introduction to Editorial Skills, Progress in Editorial Skills and Editorial Skills for Business (now Editorial Skills for All), and was a tutor on the distance learning course Basic Proofreading (now Essential Proofreading) for 10 years.  

Her editorial experience includes traditional book publishing, websites and corporate literature, consultancy on house style documents and devising editorial tests. She is author of the CIEP guide Your House Style. 

Since 1999, Sarah Sodhi has proofed, tagged, bound, corrected, edited, managed, commissioned, subbed, scheduled, estimated and produced a great deal of content – from interactive, multi-media resources to marketing leaflets, and monthly magazines to 900-page medical tomes. 

Starting her career at a small medical publisher in Oxford, she then moved into the public sector to work for an adult education charity. Now she edits and manages digital and print resources for primary, secondary and adult education publishers. 

Sarah is the tutor of the PTC’s Editorial Project Management and Proofreading PDFs, and one of a team of tutors for Introduction to Editorial Skills and Progress in Editorial Skills.