Tag: freelance editors
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“Can you look this over?” “Yes, certainly! What kind of edit do you want?” As editing professionals, we know the distinctions between various stages of developing and revising a product, but our clients don’t necessarily know. And we don’t need them to! We are here to make the pain points of producing text less painful.…
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We professional editors need to become masters of our tools, the most important of which is Microsoft Word. Perhaps the most powerful resource in Word is macros, which are programs you can create using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). You can record your own simple macros or use macros created by others that are available…
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As much as editing is a profession, there is so much variety in our work that “editing” is almost a collection of professions. Much like practicing “medicine” could mean a whole variety of vastly different things. An editor can be defined by these variables: The result is a literal million specific types of editing. While…
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Editors are famously generous with advice — but it’s easy to forget our manners. Five ground rules for asking for help the right way.