• Access to the courses available in the Art of Copyediting library
• You can access one course at a time. You can start with
  • Principles of Reference Styling—if you want to learn copyediting the traditional way
  • Essentials of Written English—if you want to learn language first (say for fiction, nonacademic nonfiction)
  • Sentence Patterns 1: The Restrictive–Nonrestrictive Conundrum—if you feel you are pretty strong with the concepts covered under the Essentials course
• You can participate in our private community
• Post questions and get them answered on topics where you need help
• Also submit questions with attachments (such as a Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and I will answer them in the private community page
• Access replays of meetings in case you miss attending a community meeting

• We see the same trend with people. They would consult someone for hours or buy a course. Then, in a few months, they do little with the information
  • Why? They need a mentor, someone to be there during the year when they have questions
• People need someone for reasons they're not consciously aware of
  • someone they can go to and ask questions when they need help
  • someone who can push them to get things done
  • someone who'll be with them and guide them when they have doubts
  • someone they can relate to in a meaningful way
  • someone who can motivate them to have a sense of direction and keep following it
• With a self-paced online course for learning and a community + mentorship for support, one would have the best of both worlds. You get answers to all your questions relating to the profession (and sometimes even about life)
• You also have community members eager to help you solve your biggest challenges

• We currently have 7 courses in the AOC library, which together are worth a year's learning
• More and more courses (listed on the Home page) will be added to the AOC library as self-paced courses over time. For language alone, we will have a graded set of 19 courses
  • The first course, Essentials of Written English, is the longest course, as it forms the base for all the courses that follow
• And with the community feature of this program, you can often get your questions answered before taking any courses. I will also guide the team members in selecting courses that may be appropriate for each
• The courses will be the core of your learning; the community discussions, training, and group mentoring will become the support and reinforcement to enhance your learning

• Our current target is twice a month (fortnightly)
• We have to find a balance between your daily work, your self-learning, the doubts that arise from your learning/daily work, your interactions within the community, and the periodic Zoom meetings where we engage in discussions and explanations for the quick answers provided earlier
• Interactions focused on problem-solving always make a community strong, and these in turn will encourage you to take action and participate more actively
• When appropriate, support will also include training or group mentoring on specific topics

• You can stay as long as you want
• I'm confident that you will—over time—clearly understand that the value of participation more than pays for the subscription
• In addition to answering your questions, the Zoom calls will empower you with innumerable tips, checklists, templates, and tools relating to practical aspects of working (e.g., file handling, process steps, copyedit workflow, Word styles, templates, Find and Replace, wild cards, automation)—things that may take an editor a lifetime to learn
• When you add in the support on how to use these resources and the years of trial and error you may have thus avoided, the membership becomes priceless
• You will then understand why mentoring is so important in the copyediting profession
• With steady improvements in your editing skills and efficiency, your earning potential will also increase
• When you persist in staying, a stage may come when your monthly income may be higher than your cumulative investment in the AOC membership

• $85/month + a one-time joining fee of $25
• Unbelievable, isn't it? Become a founding member of the AOC community and lock in your subscription pricing
• You get access, one by one, to all the courses in the AOC library (including the ones to be released over time)
• You get all your questions answered in our private community
• You get access to our community meetings (twice a month)
• You get access to recordings of community meetings, in case you missed one or two
• You get the best possible practical tips and aids to editing
• You get access to structured group mentoring—possibly the best on the planet
• All these accessible via your PC/laptop as well as dedicated mobile app

The people who can join are:

• Those graduating from college and eyeing a career in copyediting
• Individuals who are thinking of a career in academic copyediting
• Amateur copyeditors wanting to grow in their career
• Experienced copyeditors wanting to make a mark in their lives
• Editors in any genre
• Aspiring writers
• Subject matter experts (SMEs), copywriters, and writers who want to master their writing skills
• Those who started off as proofreaders and now plan to move on to copyediting
• Anyone in communications who has to keep writing

• You can join any day of the month
• You monthly subscription will begin on the day you join, and your subscription will be renewed every 30 days
• The Art of Copyediting uses PayPal for receiving international payments
• You can use any card to pay via your PayPal account (which can be created free of charge)
• Creating a PayPal account—in case you do have one—is mandatory for monthly subscription services