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Writing Skills - Editorial

Funding area Vocational
ONL/150943/Q/PF
Location:
Delivered online
Start date:
22/09/2025
End date:
08/12/2025
Level:
Level 2
Time:
10:00 - 12:00
Duration:
11 sessions
Course hours:
Course hours

Course hours are the total number of hours you'll spend being taught by your tutor. Self study time is not included within the course hours.

22 hours
Day of week:
MON
Tutor:
Emma Jenkins
Price: £220.00 Concessions
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Who can join this course

This course is designed for writers who want to strengthen their editorial skills and take their writing to the next level. Whether you’re working on fiction, memoir, articles, or personal projects, this course focuses on how to revise, refine, and polish your work with a critical and creative eye.
Through guided exercises, group feedback, and practical editing techniques, you’ll explore sentence structure, clarity, flow, word choice, and overall narrative cohesion. You’ll also learn how to self-edit more effectively, give and receive constructive feedback, and develop a deeper understanding of the editing process from draft to final version.

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Is this course for me

Ideal for learners who have some writing experience and want to improve the quality and impact of their written work.

Creativity is an essential aspect of human expression and plays a crucial role in fostering well-being and a sense of purpose.
The ambition of the Kent Adult Education Creative curriculum is to engage the community through an energetic and diverse programme offer planned to meet the varied needs and interests of Kent’s communities, thereby ensuring high quality learning is delivered across the county in dedicated adult education centres, online and in neighbourhood settings.
Creative courses aim to build confidence through learning, allowing students to express themselves, think critically, and collaborate with their peers. By empowering our students to become confident, imaginative, and adaptable learners, we aim to develop students' curiosity, resilience, and adaptability, preparing them for future challenges, opportunities, and personal development.

Work Skills/Vocational courses are designed as an introduction into the professional practice needed to progress in a Creative discipline. They are the perfect vocational course for anyone looking to take the first steps in starting a career or progressing onto further work skills or accredited courses. The focus of this course is to work on foundational skills and hone these to a high enough standard to potentially work in this field in the future. As part of this course, there is an expectation that you will attend an online session by the National Careers Service.

Course aims

By the end of the course you should be able to:

* Understand the different stages of the editing process, from self-editing to proofreading
* Improve clarity, structure, tone, and pacing in written work
* Practise identifying and correcting common issues such as repetition, wordiness, and inconsistency

Please bring a notepad and pen/pencil to your first lesson. If you do have equipment appropriate to the subject, please bring it.

Your tutor will advise you on follow-on courses.
You can attend further vocational courses which will cover additional skills and use those you have already learned in different ways to help perfect them or progress to accredited qualification courses, where offered.

This course is scheduled to not be running on the following dates:

  • Monday, 20 October 2025

From 1st August 2024, the Department for Education (DfE) require that learners attending this course must identify their primary purpose for learning. This course is not available for learners whose main aim is to learn a hobby, or for leisure/pleasure.

To get the most out of your course we recommend you attend at least 85% of your sessions. If you do have a pre-arranged commitments booked during term time, please let the tutor know in advance so that we can help you catch up on missed sessions and ensure that you still achieve the course outcome.

For Health & Safety, please do not wear open toed shoes.

It is important to note that art and craft courses are practical and require a degree of manual dexterity. Also, please make your tutor aware of any pre-existing health conditions that may impact on your learning.
If you need to bring a carer with you, or another adult please speak to the Curriculum Leader for the course.

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Delivered online

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If you require any information about joining this online course then please call 03000 41 22 22 and quote the Course Code ONL/150943/Q/PF.