Chunk Editing Tasks for Maximum Efficacy and Efficiency
By chunking the editorial tasks, we focus our attention and our decisions, resulting in maximum speed and efficacy.
adventures in editing
By chunking the editorial tasks, we focus our attention and our decisions, resulting in maximum speed and efficacy.
Easy reading is the goal of most editors. Plain Language is a popular and respected set of principles that focus on structure as well as
When your magic eight-ball isn’t handy, follow these steps to figure out what is wanted when you’re asked to “look this over”: proofread, copyedit, line edit, or something more substantive.
Sometimes there just isn’t time (or budget, or even commitment) to fix everything. Here are the edits (in order) that will help them avoid embarrassment and move the piece in the direction of perfection even if it can’t go all the way.
Summarize next steps for the manuscript and get the writer to do their part, with an author memo.
Editors should look for and flag legal concerns in the content they edit, but should not—cannot, IMHO—be held ultimately responsible for it.
Reading list to develop skills in structural/developmental editing.
Got acronyms? Here’s how to style them in your work, plus when to explain them and how.
Learn to see the bad clients coming.
For quality control, there are times a designer or proofreader needs to measure elements of a PDF. You can do this with the measurement tool