The III Official Diploma in Regulations and Text Correction includes the completion of 24 credits according to the following curriculum plan:
Subjects:
Module I. Fundamentals of Correction
- Unit 1General notions of proofreading. Definition of proofreading and proofreader. Background and importance of proofreading
- Unit 2The proofreader's job. Personal branding. Job placement for proofreaders. Clients. Hiring. Compensation. Freelance or partner work. Productivity techniques
- Unit 3Proofreading in the publishing industry. Types of proofreading. Levels of proofreading. Proofreading guidelines and style guides. Proofreading teams: cohesion and management
- Unit 4The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the definition of norm. Approaches to the Peruvian norm. Peruvian language and text correction. Regional varieties. Grammatical characteristics. Lexical characteristics. Peruvianisms.
- Unit 5Resources for the proofreader. Citing sources and organizing references. APA, Chicago, ISO, and Vancouver styles. Bibliographic references. Bibliographic citations. Tables and figures
- Unit 6Academic text editing. Characteristics of academic texts and requirements for the editor. Specialized publications. Theses. Scientific articles
Module II. Spanish spelling
- Unit 1Spelling. Use of letters
- Unit 2Accentuation. General rules. Accentuation. Diacritical marks and current rules
- Unit 3: General punctuation. Text structure using punctuation marks. Period. Semicolon. Comma rules. Mandatory uses. Optional uses. Special cases of comma, question mark, and exclamation mark use. Other punctuation marks: dash, hyphen, quotation marks, colon, ellipsis.
- Unit 4Capitalization and lowercase letters. Current rules.
- Unit 5: Writing numerals
- Unit 6Shortenings, acronyms and abbreviations
Module III. Spanish normative grammar
- Unit 1Spanish grammar. Morphology and syntax. Morphological and syntactic units. Word, sentence, phrase
- Unit 2Typology. Plurals. Special cases
- Unit 3: Adjective
- Unit 4: Adverb
- Unit 5Verb: Verb conjugation. Mood and aspect. Types of verbs (copulative, predicative, and defective). Correlation of verb tenses. Verbal periphrasis. Verbal phrases. Infinitive and participle. Gerund: Correct uses. Correction of incorrect gerund usage
- Unit 6Determiners. Prepositions
- Unit 7Pronouns. Personal pronoun
- Unit 8Basics of Spanish syntax. Active and passive voice sentences. Impersonal sentences. Reflexive passive sentence.
- Unit 9Grammatical agreement. Frequent disagreements
Module IV. Lexico-semantics in proofreading
- Unit 1General lexicography. Dictionaries. Types. Uses. Digital dictionaries
- Unit 2Lexical analysis. Word formation I. Word formation II. Lexical improprieties. Neologisms. Current regulations for foreign words and neologisms.
- Unit 3Ambiguity. Redundancy. Resources to avoid redundant texts.
- Unit 4Meaning. Semantic relations.
- Unit 5Lexical-semantic correction. Real-world examples in texts
Module V. Basic textual aspects
- Unit 1Text as a communicative unit. Fundamental properties: congruence, correctness, and appropriateness.
- Unit 2Aspects of coherence in the text. Aspects of cohesion in the text. Logical connectors. Their function in discourse.
- Unit 3: Writing process. Text production
- Unit 4Text typology and text genres
- Unit 5Narration and description
- Unit 6: Exposure
- Unit 7Argumentation
- Unit 8: Administrative speech. Legal speech
- Unit 9Artificial intelligence
- Unit 10Clear language, democracy, and equality. Proofreading topics: Inclusive language. Proofreading topics: Easy reading
Module VI. The help of technology in correction
- Unit 1From "traditional" proofreading to new publication formats.
- Unit 2Techniques for improving your use of Word. Macros (I). Macros (II). PDF proofreading