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Tip #4: Break up editing into separate tasks

admin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:24:49 -0500

26 August 2008 -- Editing a piece of content thoroughly is not an easy job. Careful editing involves correcting grammar, spelling, and punctuation and improving word choice, structure, flow, and readability. Trying to handle all of these things at once would overwhelm anyone.

So, breaking up editing into separate tasks can help make the job of editing a whole lot more manageable. Read our blog »

How we show edits

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:08:36 -0500

20 July 2008 -- When we return edited content to our clients, we want them to have complete control over what they do with that content. Some may be curious about exactly what changes we have made, while others may be happy with most of our edits but want to retain or make further changes to parts of the original text. Read our blog »

Why typos hurt credibility

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:53:35 -0500

2 July 2008 -- Since Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab conducted its research on web credibility over six years ago, countless writers have referred to its pioneering, and still mostly relevant, insight into how users judge organizations based on their websites. Read our blog »

Whither goes the copy editor?

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:14:48 -0500

18 June 2008 -- Lawrence Downes writes a heartfelt piece in the New York Times this week titled “In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors.”

Downes laments the plight of the traditional newsroom copy editor, Read our blog »

Easy on the formatting

admin — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:50:18 -0500

11 June 2008 -- Writers convey their ideas mainly through word choice and word order—“the best words in the best order,” to borrow Coleridge’s dictum about poetry.

One thing the explosion of the Internet has created is a demand for content that cannot be met by the available professionals. Read our blog »

Tip #3: Catch typos by altering habits

admin — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:42:31 -0500

9 May 2008 -- Content editing covers a whole range of issues: structure, argument, style, phrasing, grammar. Sometimes, though, the smallest things trip us up — especially when we’re facing a tight deadline. Read our blog »

Editing: what’s the point?

admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:09:13 -0500

15 April 2008 -- Everyone now recognizes that the Internet is a revolutionary form of communication, on par with the printing press over 500 years ago. In the grand scheme of things, Read our blog »

SEO vs. grammar: must we choose?

admin — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:33:04 -0500

25 March 2008 -- Other than word-of-mouth, nothing brings people to a website faster than a good search engine ranking. With the unending proliferation of pages on the Internet, optimizing your website Read our blog »

Tip #2: Tricks are good, clarity is better

admin — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:33:41 -0500

19 March 2008 -- Blogs and websites that provide advice on writing for the web often contain useful tips. Many of them point out that, Read our blog »

Bringing sense to the web

admin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:17:13 -0500

10 March 2008 -- Type “web content editing” into Google, and almost all of your top results will be for software that edits web code, not text. You’ll find the odd site that offers advice on writing for the web. Read our blog »