AI for Editors

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AI is transforming the editorial landscape, reshaping how copyeditors approach mechanical editing, line editing, research, and workflow automation. This eight-week hybrid course helps emerging and established editors integrate AI into their practice responsibly and skillfully, without compromising judgment, voice, or accuracy. Through guided instruction, live demonstrations, and hands-on lab work, participants learn to use AI tools to support first pass cleanup, sentence level refinement, structural analysis, fact-checking, and no-code automation. Emphasizing applied practice—transparent prompting, iterative editing, and ethical verification—the course culminates in a professional portfolio and a clear, defensible framework for using AI within an editorial workflow.
This course may be used to fulfill the requirements of the Certificate in Professional Copyediting, Proofreading, and Fact-Checking.

Requirements:
The certificate is awarded to students who declare candidacy and successfully complete the one required course listed below with a grade of B or higher.

You must declare your candidacy by completing the Declaration of Certificate Candidacy form in order to receive your certificate and the 10% discount.

Questions? Contact us at The Center for Publishing, Writing, and Media. Email sps.pwm.ce@nyu.edu or call 212-998-7289.
Continuing Education Units (CEU) : 2

You'll walk away with

• A foundational understanding of how AI supports mechanical editing, line editing, content analysis, and research.
• Practical prompting skills tailored to editorial tasks, including iterative refinement, genre-sensitive prompting, and transparent "show your work" methods.
• Experience using AI tools to run first-pass edits, micro-passes for rhythm and clarity, structural analysis, tone assessment, and revision planning.
• Hands-on practice with AI-generated macros and Google Apps Scripts for no-code workflow automation.
• A strong ethical framework for responsible AI use, including disclosure practices, privacy considerations, and verification standards.
• A complete editorial portfolio featuring a copyediting pass, line-editing sequence, revision plan, fact-checking memo, automation, and AIuse ethics statements.

Ideal for

• Experienced editors who want to understand AI’s role in modern editing and strengthen their technical confidence.
• New and emerging editors building an efficient, contemporary workflow grounded in strong editorial judgment.
• Freelance or in house editors managing high content volumes and looking to increase capacity without sacrificing quality.
• Academic, nonfiction, and research focused editors who need fast, trustworthy support for analysis, clarity, and fact checking.
• Copyeditors and fiction editors seeking consistent, voice safe tools that speed up micro passes and strengthen prose.