It’s one thing to make the edits to someone else’s copy…it’s quite another to give them feedback about the changes you’ve made. In my experience, hitting the writer with a newspaper and calling them a moron is quite satisfying, but seldom ever productive. So how do you train a writer to stop abusing the...
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When you will be the only person to edit a piece before it goes to its final destination, you have to make sure you can catch any mistakes. Self-editing can be a difficult task, and if you want to do it well there is no substitute for reading out loud.
Reading aloud makes you look...
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Don’t make the mistake of thinking that any first draft is something that you should turn in. A well-known writing professor once said, ”The only writing is re-writing,” and those are words of wisdom that should be followed. Any piece can be improved with another careful look. I’ve heard of writers who don’t do it, but I...
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