Right Angels and Polo Bears

Resolution: Raise Your Rates

“My advice to anyone starting out freelancing?” says editor Barb Adamski, “Double your rates at least once in your career.”

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

ChatGPT 4o (not truly AI, but called so) can now analyze PDFs and images, so I uploaded this small-town newspaper

References to the keynote address at the Editors Canada conference in Vancouver, June 2024.

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.

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