COMM 5360 Editing and Proofreading

Applies advanced editorial techniques to ensure accuracy, consistency, and style compliance in texts.

Course overview

This course focuses on the final stages of the content creation process. You will learn to polish technical documents, reports, and publications to meet professional standards. The emphasis is on precision, consistency, and adherence to specific style guides. You will work with real-world texts to identify errors in grammar, syntax, and formatting. The goal is to produce clean, clear, and authoritative documents ready for publication.

Who takes this course

• Students in the Technical Communication program.

Credits: 0.5 · Hours: 30

Prerequisites

• COMM 5300 Advanced Technical Documentation

Learning outcomes

• Apply advanced copy-editing principles to technical and business texts.
• Ensure consistency in style, tone, and formatting across multi-author documents.
• Identify and correct grammatical, syntactic, and punctuation errors.
• Use industry-standard style guides to resolve ambiguity and improve clarity.
• Provide constructive editorial feedback to writers and subject matter experts.
• Perform final proofreading passes to ensure publication-ready quality.

Evaluation