Course overview
The course will provide a thorough overview of editing for creative writing students. It will focus on the realities of the transmission of a text from draft to publication through developing an understanding of the complex interplay of literary and editorial skills in self-editing as well as providing an introduction to professional editing requirements in an Australian context. It will serve the needs of students wishing to develop advanced skills in critical self-editing and revising and structuring a range of texts. It will encourage students in understanding the process of critically and creatively bringing a text, either one of their own or another, from manuscript stage to final publication.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate having gained knowledge of a range of editing concepts, processes and practices, including structural editing and copyediting, in the context of the editing and publishing industry in Australia and internationally.
- Demonstrate having engaged with various approaches to redrafting and restructuring their own creative work.
- Demonstrate having developed a capacity to investigate and reflect on the publishing industry in the context of their own work and the literary field in general.
- Demonstrate having gained an awareness of the nexus between writing and editing and the role of the editor in the publishing process.
- Demonstrate having developed skills to identify and analyse grammar and style errors and correct these in their own work and the writing of others.
- Demonstrate having developed skills to identify structural issues in a manuscript and provide feedback to another author.
- Demonstrate having developed an understanding the writer-editor relationship through giving and receiving constructive criticism.
- Demonstrate having developed skills to confidently, thoughtfully and respectfully express their ideas to their peers.
- Demonstrate having developed skills in working as a team in a small group environment.