This module covers
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Commenting
- A proofreader's role in academic work
- Subject-specific terms
- Latin terminology
It is useful for:
- People who are starting to work with academic proofreading
- People studying who want to learn how to proofread their own work
This module is a part of
Difficulty level
Intermediate
Additional Info
A complete overview of how to start proofreading academic work professionally, without straying into re-writing or over-editing, which can lead to charges of plagiarism against the author.
This course also includes
Quotes, Grammatical Person and Tense Use
Think you're already quite a grammatical person? Discover what on earth we mean by this!
MLA, Chicago and IEEE Referencing
We know more referencing systems than you can shake a stick it, and we're still going strong with them in this module!
Harvard and APA Referencing
Things get source-y in this module, as we introduce all the different kinds of material that authors might cite in academic work, and the details that need to be recorded for each one.