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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%

Of the ~150 Professional Editorial Standards, only about 6 have to do with spelling & grammar (in yellow). We can

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.

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

Funny enough, plain language editing is barely about word choice, and is never about “dumbing down.”

Word-Wrangling Wednesday tips now have their own blog.

Click through to get a link to the updated version

Build up your bounce-back-ability. 5 practices that will get you there, in my How To column about resilience, over at Copyediting.com.

Are you facing a Windows computer with panic? Not to fear, the quick tutorial below will set you in the

When an editing job explodes, how do you get yourself back on track? Beyond the self-care, today in my How