This training and mentoring program is for any of the following groups of people:

• Young job seekers
  • Graduates/postgraduates who have a flair for the English language and aspire for a career in the writing/editing fields (any industry)
  • Postgraduates aspiring for a career in copyediting and seeking placement in companies
• Copyeditors
  • Copyeditors wanting to learn something substantial in a short span of time
  • Freelance editors as well as salaried editors working from home
  • Copyeditors who want to have a good grounding on the basics
  • Editors who have already taken any course from The Art of Copyediting (will be given a special discount coupon on request)
• Experienced copyeditors who have not had a formal training and who want to be thorough with the basics
  • to become professional editors in the future
  • to simply know the reasoning behind a hundred things they do
• Certification aspirants
  • Copyeditors planning to go in for editorial certification in the future
• Field-change aspirants
  • Those working in any other field and wanting to move into the writing/editing fields

The following 4 courses will be taught in this training and mentoring program:

• Essentials of Written English
  • The foundational course for 18 other courses on language offered by The Art of Copyediting
  • Covers over 200 principles of writing
• Sentence patterns 1: The restrictive–nonrestrictive conundrum
  • A brilliant course that will introduce you to things you may have never thought about
  • Consolidates the possibilities with 20 structural patterns
  • You will also learn what it means to read a sentence correctly
• Sentence patterns 2: The number of subjects and number of associated actions
  • Introduces you to a wide-angle view of sentence structure with 36 structural patterns
• Sentence component analysis and identification
  • Analyses of sentences and color coding of 14 functional components—actually a consolidation of all the three courses above
  • Everything about verbs
  • Everything about modals
  • All the grammar you learn will be explanatory

As a result of taking these courses, participants will be able to . . .

• Learn the basics of writing/editing
• Apply principles learned immediately in the form of exercises after every major module
• Polish one's understanding further through mentoring
• Understand sentence structure and punctuation
• Learn how to read a sentence both generically and specifically
• Learn to color-code every part of any sentence as belonging to 1 of 14 functional components that define sentence structure—and also identify errors in the process
• Learn to use a simple Word styles template (as part of the sentence component identification process)
• Understand functional components of sentences and their relative roles in different sentences and structural patterns
• Learn how to use a dictionary effectively
• Reconstruct sentences by asking questions against every component—and thus prove the correctness or incorrectness of any sentence

The benefits of taking this program will be threefold:

• You will be joining the BEST English-language-training program in the world
  • The program follows THE ideal way of training people into written English
  • It will help you learn the maximum possible in a short period (3 months of learning and 2 months of mentoring)
  • The mentoring will reiterate the concepts learned and make you remember/recall the fundamentals at any point in time
• The program has a unique approach to teaching language editing, which will help you to
  • Learn the principles of writing/editing
  • Master sentence structure and punctuation
  • Analyze sentences confidently and identify functional components
  • Understand the grammar needed to explain things to others
• Develop all-important analytic skills
  • Be far ahead of others who have not had any formal training
  • Show your program-completion certificate and negotiate a better pay
  • Find better-paying jobs with your superior competency

Both desktop/laptop and mobile access to courses will be available.

Desktop access

• Course access will be made available in the sequence of learning
• Access to course 1 (Essentials of Written English) will be provided first
• After one month of learning (per a timetable) and when the mentoring starts, access to the next courses will be provided in succession
• Access to all courses will be available for 3 more months (1 month beyond the two-month mentoring period)

Mobile access

• Courses videos can also be accessed on your mobile via a dedicated mobile app (after the desktop login)

How

• Mentoring will happen online via Zoom meetings

Number of sessions

• There will be 20 mentoring sessions of 1-hour duration each over a period of 3 months (12 weeks)
• 4 mentoring sessions in the first month (one per week) and 16 sessions in the next two months (two per week)

Timings

• The mentoring timings will generally be fixed per the convenience of the participant
• The timing for each participant will remain the same throughout the mentoring period

Mentoring type

• One-to-one (or two-to-one), depending on the number of participants in a batch

Practical and actionable key concepts that participants will take away from these courses. . .

• Practical skill sets in a short time
• Competitive advantage in employability skills (for graduates and postgraduates seeking employment)
• Self-confidence for negotiating better pay packages or for finding better-paying freelance work (for copyeditors)
• AOC program completion certificate (for boosting your resume/profile on LinkedIn)
• Ready-reference summaries and charts (for refreshing concepts any time in your professional life)

Ready-reference charts for life-long help

• Summaries of principal concepts under every rule of writing, together with relevant course examples (which can serve as life-long reference charts)
• Ready-reference charts that summarize almost every possible structure and punctuation (20+36=56 patterns)
• Word template with keyboard shorts to practice sentence component identification (whenever one needs to refresh concepts)
• Summary charts (with examples) indicating the 24 tenses (including the unused tenses) in the active and passive voice
• Summary charts indicating the role of the primary auxiliary verbs in the English language
• Reference document with over 150 examples to help understand the various tenses
• Summary chart indicating the use of modals in the different tenses

Bonus

• Will be given permanent access to the AOC community app
• You can ask questions/doubts relating to your daily work
• You can also see the responses to questions asked by others
• You will also be able to see all questions and answers asked in the AOC community (these will be arranged categorically and datewise)
• You can be part of the AOC community even after you complete the training

Many things mentioned here (AOC program completion certificate, summaries and charts, access to the AOC community) would come to naturally with your own active participation in the training and mentoring program (e.g., learning the courses steadily, active participation and learning during the mentoring, attending mentoring sessions regularly, completing assignments on time).

At the same time, The Art of Copyediting has its own mission and standards, and it also has a responsibility to the society it serves. So please do not imagine that you will have a right to all these things as soon as you pay the course fees. This is a serious training and mentoring program where you will be expected to show progress steadily. The Art of Copyediting reserves the right to withhold any of these things from nonlearning participants.

Course participants are expected to do the following:

• Ensure that you have a good Wi-Fi connection for two months (during the mentoring period)
• Be committed to learning (via video lessons) for at least 1 hour every day for the next 3 months (do not worry about exigencies; they will be considered appropriately)
• Be available for the mentoring on alternate days (10 days a month, 20 days in two months, excluding weekends)
• Understand that you will have to keep learning every day but that the mentoring will happen on alternate days, and you will also have the weekends to catch up on delays
• Work on the practice exercises given to you (during weekdays or during weekends) and submit them on time
• Focus on the summary concepts learned to connect with the essence of course modules and to fare better in the next mentoring session
• This is a serious program that will help you make great strides in your writing/editing career—so please cut out all distractions for the next three months

Individual course prices when purchased alone from the website:

• Essentials of Written English: ₹12,850
• Sentence patterns 1: The restrictive–nonrestrictive conundrum: ₹6,750
• Sentence patterns 2: The number of subjects and number of associated actions: ₹6,750
• Sentence component analysis and identification: ₹15,000
• Total: ₹41,350

The expert mentoring alone can cost you more than these courses. 

But the price of all these courses + the 20 sessions of mentoring is simply
₹45,000

It is almost as if you get the entire mentoring for free once you pay for the courses! And that's because the aim here is to serve as many learners as possible.

You also have the following payment options:

• Single payment: 45,000 (use coupon for a 10% discount; Total: ₹40,500)
• Two part-payments: ₹22,500 for 2 months (use coupon for a ₹1,000 discount for both payments; Total: ₹43,000)
• Three part-payments: ₹15,500 for 3 months (credit card/debit card via payment gateway; Total: ₹46,500)
• Three part-payments: ₹15,000 for 3 months (via QR code scan; Total: ₹45,000)
• Any other offers/discounts will be directly indicated in the payment options

The mission of The Art of Copyediting is to provide world-class training at an affordable price. If you feel that even ₹15,000/month is not affordable, you can proactively choose group mentoring with your friend(s) and still learn at an affordable price. You can choose any of the options below.

• You can form a group with 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 members
• You can decide on the number of persons you want for your group by keeping in mind what you can afford and by looking at the discount table below
• Once you decide on the team number for your group, you can start talking with your fiends
  • If you are a freelance editor, talk with freelance editors and decide on a mentoring time (1–1½ hours) during the day (10 am to 5 pm)
  • If you go to office 2–3 days in a week, talk with people who work like you and decide on a mentoring time (during the day or any time between 5 and 7 pm)
  • If you go to the office physically every day, talk with people who go to office full-time like you and decide on a mentoring time late in the evening (7 pm onwards)
• When you come to a decision, give me a call and we'll have a group briefing before we begin
• I will then give you a payment link depending on how you want to make the payment
• In this plan, you can learn your video lessons independently once the payment is made

Discount table for group mentoring