Category: Editing
11
Jun
Working from Home: How to Boost Productivity
by Ashlyn Dyer Pells
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With remote work becoming increasingly common for writers and editors, find out how you can tune out distractions and utilize your time effectively. Have you...
11
Jun
Learning to Edit for Your Audience: Fiction vs. Nonfiction
by Jennifer Fletcher
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Learning about the different effects that fiction and nonfiction writing have on critical thinking can help editors revise literature to benefit the authors’ audiences to...
10
Jun
How to Write and Recognize Credible Online Reviews
by Heidi Knapp
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In today’s age of paid promotions and online shopping, it is important to learn not only to write credible reviews but also to identify them....
09
Jun
Identifying Common Grammatical Mistakes Made by Authors
by Megan Hutchings
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By identifying some of the most common grammatical mistakes, both editors and authors can be better equipped to produce a clean and professional manuscript. ...
07
Jun
Does the Science Fiction Genre Affect Literary Merit?
by Reagan Weston
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Some academics give less literary merit to science fiction. However, a text’s intrinsic literary qualities can upend typical genre expectations. Many of us grew up...
04
Apr
Do You Have the Personality for Character Writing?
by Brooklyn Hughes
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By analyzing certain personality traits common among successful character writers, we can understand how an author’s personality helps them craft compelling characters. Neil Dewberry never...
05
Apr
How Freelance Editors and Writers Can Use Self-Management Strategies
by Emma Valentine
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Learn the tested strategies of 30 experienced freelance journalists to increase your self-management skills as a freelancer. Freelancing is an attractive form of work because...
07
Apr
Do Writers Feel Pressured to Accept Your Edits?
by Emma Campbell
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Creating a healthy author-editor relationship is essential for ensuring that published material maintains accuracy and value and that authors feel respected. The relationship between an...
08
Apr
What Is a “Light Copyedit”? Navigating the Terms of Editing
by Abbie Call
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As editors, we do not want to let communication errors get between us and our writers. But good communication can be difficult when editing terminology...
08
Apr
Should Editors Use Grammarly?
by Simon Laraway
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Computer programs that offer automated feedback on writing are quickly becoming commonplace for students—but writers and editors cannot rely on these programs for accurate suggestions....
