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Tag: editorial methods
Learn to Edit Less Using the “Mittens Method”
The goal is to offer minimal interventions to bring a piece of writing to the next stage. But how can you learn to edit with a lighter hand?
When There’s No Time to Read It All before Editing
The Typographic Oath was suggested by senior editor Erin Brenner as a guiding principle of editing ethics.* Her second point
The Art of the Author Memo
Summarize next steps for the manuscript and get the writer to do their part, with an author memo.
Getting Work in Academic Editing
It’s niche work, if you can get it. And you can get it, if you try. Who hires academic editors
How to Limit Author’s Alterations
How do you deal with a writer who can’t stop writing, even when the manuscript has moved on in the
How to Survive a Heavy Editing Job
Those editing jobs that make doing your taxes look good? I have a host of tips for eating that frog,
7 Ways to Get Style Sheet Buy-in
Read the updated post. Seven tactics you can use to get buy-in for house style, today in my How To