How & Why Editors Make a Figures Manuscript
When a product contains illustrations, graphs, and other visuals, a separate file containing them and their related instructions is submitted
The Editors’ Guide to Confidentiality: Essential Security for Protecting Clients’ Words
Editing isn’t just about typo protection. Data security and content (intellectual property, or IP) privacy are core standards in editing
Resolution: Find Better Assignments
Can’t get clients to raise your pay? Tired of disastrous prose and rush-rush deadlines? Time to work on the client
Resolution: Raise Your Rates
“My advice to anyone starting out freelancing?” says editor Barb Adamski, “Double your rates at least once in your career.”
Editor Vs AI: Can Grammarly edit itself?
For this entry in the series, I give Grammarly a chance to edit its own article on “30 Common Grammar
Checklist for Citations and References
Editing the references can take as long as it does to edit the document itself. Formatting is picky and slightly
Editing: It’s about accuracy, not just typos
Editing is about a lot more than typos. Strong arguments can be made that unless an editor (or proofreader) has
Editing: It’s about Meaning & Sense
Editing is about far more than finding typos. We already saw that spelling & grammar make up less than 0.1%
Editing: It’s more than typos
Of the ~150 Professional Editorial Standards, only about 6 have to do with spelling & grammar (in yellow). We can
Editor Vs AI: ChatGPT Tries Proofreading
ChatGPT 4o (not truly AI, but called so) can now analyze PDFs and images, so I uploaded this small-town newspaper