Grammar, punctuation, and AP style–that’s what you get with Vicki Krueger’s Cleaning Your Copy seminar at News University. It’s a two-hour online course focusing on the basics of scrubbing your own copy and being your own editor (at least for the technical stuff.) There are also tips on the most common mistakes and how...
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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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Jeff Anderson’s Everyday Editing is really aimed at teachers who want to create more effective writing workshops and educate students on how to self-edit, but this teaching perspective has a lot of value for the everyday writer.
Imagine how this book could change your perspective as a freelance writer editor or a newcomer to the...
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Since 1995, The Slot has provided advice and resources on the fine art of copy writing and editing. This site is packed full of information including a great especially-for-newcomers definition of what a copyeditor does (and does not do).
The site is aimed at copyeditors, but anyone involved in freelance editing or freelance writing should...
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“Dear Editor: I’m a freelance writer trying to move into editing as a sideline. I’m not sure I want to do it full time yet, but it looks like good extra income. How do I make my move?”
If you are already established as a freelance writer but want to make the transition to freelance...
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Editors on Editing: What Writers Need To Know About What Editors Do is not the most lightweight book title in the universe, but it is a handy volume to own if you’re just getting started as a writer or editor.
Editors on Editing has gotten rave reviews from readers who recognize the power of this...
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I’ve said it before…before you can realistically start editing other people’s work for pay, you need to be able to edit yourself. New writers and editors would do well to have a good long read of Claire Kehrwald Cook’s Line By Line. How do you self-edit your own work? Everybody has their own tricks,...
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“Dear Editor–can you be a freelance editor writer all in one?”
I won’t try to fool you–this site is far too new to have people writing Dear Editor questions to it already. But this is one I get a lot from newcomers who want to give themselves as much of a chance as possible to...
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If you are an editor or writer just starting to look for freelance jobs, The Write Jobs is an excellent place to start looking for work. You won’t find vast amounts of new freelance jobs for editor writers, but the gigs that are posted are legit, usually high quality and pay well.
If you look...
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Developing Quality Technical Information Second Edition is, as the name implies, aimed at technical writers and editors. Reviewers of this book on technical writing praise it for being exactly what it tells the writer editor to do. In other words, this book practices exactly what it preaches. This book actually illustrates techincal writing techniques....
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