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Protected: Glossary of Editorial Publishing Terms

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If you are even a minor word nerd, you have probably thought about the dictionary and how it gets made.

TL;DR no. But technically, an acronymn is made up of the initials that make up a term and turns out

When a product contains illustrations, graphs, and other visuals, a separate file containing them and their related instructions is submitted

For this entry in the series, I give Grammarly a chance to edit its own article on “30 Common Grammar

Editing the references can take as long as it does to edit the document itself. Formatting is picky and slightly

Editing is about a lot more than typos. Strong arguments can be made that unless an editor (or proofreader) has

Editing is about far more than finding typos. We already saw that spelling & grammar make up less than 0.1%

Of the ~150 Professional Editorial Standards, only about 6 have to do with spelling & grammar (in yellow). We can

You don’t have to understand everything to edit it, but there are limits. Here’s now to proceed to be helpful and show respect the expert writer.