How to Edit Topics You’re Clueless About

How to Edit Topics You’re Clueless About

You’d never find an editor for that piece on liquid metal cooled fast nuclear reactors if you needed them to be an expert in the subject. There are approximately two-dozen people on the planet who are experts in that, and what are the chances that any one of them is also an editing expert… or wasn’t an author of the piece in need of editing and so could look at it with fresh eyes. Today, in my How To column at [the now defunct] Copyediting.com, I begin a series exploring how to edit subjects you are not an expert in.

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