copyediting – Right Angels and Polo Bears

Publishing Workflow

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

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

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 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

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

Can you see that? Designs continue to lower their contrast, use smaller fonts, and are designed to be pretty but

Is “that” needed? A roundup of advice from various style guides on the use of “that” in sentences.

In addition to following the preferences of a style guide such as CMOS, CP or APA (or a dozen others),