As editors, we can have a significant impact on a document. From small, nuanced punctuation revisions to large-scale content changes, editing aims to revise the text to improve it. But what happens if an error is discovered in the final file? Or there’s an argument that the text wasn’t improved? … [Read more...]
When and Why to Limit Editing
A carpenter was asked to make a threshold for my newly renovated bathroom. He proceeded to tell me the whole bathroom was poorly done and needed to be ripped out and redone. I was fuming as he tried to convince me. I showed him my long list of urgent repairs and said that redoing something that was … [Read more...]