substantive / developmental editing – Right Angels and Polo Bears

What Do Editors Do, Anyway?

Book review Do you wonder what editors do? Do you know that there are at least 5 distinct jobs that

Making materials accessible not only meets the law, it broadens the potential audience for your material! Some accessible formats, like

Short as it is, there are three key components to a copyright statement: Do not update the copyright date on

Seeing this flowchart I made of the publishing workflow, it’s easier to understand why I haven’t found a satisfactory one

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

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

Whether you have a manuscript in hand or are trying to get started on one, picking an organizational principle can

This revision of Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards was a major overhaul. Get the summary and links to more in-depth analysis here.