editing – Right Angels and Polo Bears

Q&A: What are “queries”? [in editing & proofreading]

A:Writers query publishers when they send a book/article proposal. Editors query authors about matters in their manuscript. On the face

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

TL;DR no. But technically, an acronymn is made up of the initials that make up a term and turns out

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.”

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