Sometimes there just isn’t time (or budget, or even commitment) to fix everything. Here are the edits (in order) that will help them avoid embarrassment and move the piece in the direction of perfection even if it can’t go all the way.
Summarize next steps for the manuscript and get the writer to do their part, with an author memo.
Editors should look for and flag legal concerns in the content they edit, but should not—cannot, IMHO—be held ultimately responsible for it.
Reading list to develop skills in structural/developmental editing.
Got acronyms? Here’s how to style them in your work, plus when to explain them and how.
Learn to see the bad clients coming.
For quality control, there are times a designer or proofreader needs to measure elements of a PDF. You can do this with the measurement tool
Of course there are 4 ways to change the properties of almost any mark you make on a PDF. Some methods are easier to access,
Cut your time and boost your accuracy with this trick for comparing dead copy changes to live copy. Make sure all the changes were correctly
I tried it so you don’t have to. Well, in this case, you might want to. A PC on a stick, as I call it, is a fully functioning computer in a thumb drive.
