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Who Edits the Dictionary?

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

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

When a product contains illustrations, graphs, and other visuals, a separate file containing them and their related instructions is submitted

Can’t get clients to raise your pay? Tired of disastrous prose and rush-rush deadlines? Time to work on the client

“My advice to anyone starting out freelancing?” says editor Barb Adamski, “Double your rates at least once in your career.”

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.

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?

The Typographic Oath was suggested by senior editor Erin Brenner as a guiding principle of editing ethics.* Her second point