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How to Become A Copy Editor (Even As A Beginner)

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Looking to get into the writing and editing industry, but not sure if you should become a copy editor? However, copy editing requires its own set of skills and rules, which we will cover in this article. What Do Copy Editors Do? Copy editors work in a wide variety of writing industries, too.

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How to Send a Style Guide Discussion Straight to Hell

Arrant Pedantry

From time to time it’s necessary for copy editors to have discussions about style. Maybe an issue keeps popping up that isn’t quite covered by your style manual or house style, and you need to decide how to handle it.

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6 Killer Writing Tips from a Great-Grandmother of a Copy Editor

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6 Killer Writing Tips from a Great-Grandmother of a Copy Editor. Visit www.Ageofmarketing.com/free-ebook to get his new ebook— Marketing to the Pre-Historic Mind: How the Hot New Science of Behavioural Economics Can Help You Boost Your Sales —for FREE. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

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Coming Next Year to Cambridge University Press

Arrant Pedantry

My chapter is titled “Dictionaries and Editors”, and, as you might guess, it focuses on the relationship between dictionaries and some of their most frequent users, copy editors and proofreaders.

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Proofreading vs Copy Editing: What’s the Difference?

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If you’re trying to find a job in the editing industry, you’ll need to know the difference between proofreading and copy editing. Both proofreaders and copy editors work together to make a written piece as error-free as possible for publication. Generally, copy editors do a complete in-depth analysis of a piece.

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How to Edit Writing in 3 Steps

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Copyediting After a piece of writing is in good shape organizationally, and the writer and substantive editor are happy with the language and flow of ideas in it, it’s time for copyediting. In many publishing contexts, copy editors are also responsible for making sure that any factual material in a piece of writing is accurate.

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Right, Wrong, and Relative

Arrant Pedantry

To me, “as such” is a prepositional phrase, and “such” is a pronoun that must refer to some sort of noun or noun phrase, as in “I’m a copy editor; as such, I fix bad writing.” The rest of the language will keep marching on without us.