Since the 1980s, the publishing industry has been undergoing massive changes, and for a long time most copyeditors there have been freelancers instead of employees. Newspapers have been hemorrhaging copyeditors for quite a few years now as journalism changes too. Why is this? Mostly, it’s because … [Read more...]
Editing for ESL Authors
There’s editing, and then there’s editing for authors for whom English is a second language (ESL). In the former, you’re paying attention to concerns such as spelling, syntax, grammar, the correlation of tone with the intended reading audience, topic flow, transition between topics, logic, and … [Read more...]