By Ginny Rogers If you’re a writer, you’ve probably seen discussions on social media that argue about the value of editors. Some people (mostly editors) maintain that writers can’t edit their own work; others (mostly writers) steadfastly insist that editing is part of the writing process and they have no need for somebody to clean …
By Ginny Rogers Writing is a passionate expression, isn’t it? You pour out your thoughts, your dreams, your ideas, your hopes, spilling them all out onto paper for the world to see. And then some cheeky editor comes along and shreds your beautiful manuscript, convinced that she knows better than you what is in your …
By E. M. Levy In a time when people are communicating important information via Twitter and the very existence of facts is being questioned, the traditions of academic scholarship, built on the bedrock of logic and reason, are going to be more vital than ever. There is just no substitute for the careful, persistent pursuit …
By Jeff Karon, PhD. Plurals are no easy matter in English. Though a number of verbs are regular, allowing us to add an “s” to the end as in store/stores and stream/streams, many others are irregular, such as sheep/sheep (where the two forms are spelled the same) or mouse/mice (where the two forms are spelled …
Book and Article Editing |Copy Editing | Proofreading | Formatting (MLA, APA, CMS, etc.) | Project Development | Dissertation and Thesis Editing | ESL Editing | Business Communication JEFF KARON, Ph.D. is a former university English and Writing professor and current writer, editor, poet, teacher, and consultant (www.jeffkaron.com) with over 25 years of experience working with writers …
By Jeff Karon, academic editor Editing-Writing.com Book-Editing.com One of the often unspoken worries of dissertation and thesis writers is length: what is the minimum number of pages or words that the writer should produce? The very question may seem too crude for writers to ask their directors or committees—indeed, there are faculty members who may …