Posts Tagged ‘Professional Editing’
Friday, February 25th, 2011
 English prose is a minefield of potential errors. From minor mistakes such as the confusion of ‘to’ and ‘too,’ ‘their’ and ‘there’, and ‘whose’ and who’s’, to the more complex problems of construction concerning tense, number and correlation, you have to be very alert to produce a polished piece of writing. This is especially difficult when you’re already grappling with ideas which seem to hover just beyond the boundaries of articulation and refuse to let themselves be securely enmeshed in nets of words. As capable a wordsmith as T.S. Eliot himself was able to say: (more…)
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
 Expressing oneself clearly in writing is difficult in any language: getting the ideas which seem so clear and self-evident in your head onto paper, with no feed-back or interaction to let you know what you may need to clarify, back up, or give an example of is often a trial-and-error process which seems to move two steps forward for every three steps back. These problems are obviously greatly magnified when you are working in a language which is not your mother tongue. Having someone with a fresh perspective and no preconceptions look over your writing can help enormously. (more…)
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Sunday, February 13th, 2011
 All writers require some form of editing at some point in their writing project. Whether they are composing an assigned essay for a college course, a personal statement for admission to medical school, a research dissertation, or a short story purely for entertainment, a second set of eyes is necessary in every instance. Sometimes, however, editing can be vital and imperative to ensure clear communication and language accessibility. One such situation is in the case of writers for whom English is their second language (ESL).
ESL writers are skilled individuals possessing a language knowledge base spanning at least two languages, often even more. With such an expansive understanding of languages, however, there are often minor mistakes that can inadvertently appear rendering portions of a project somewhat unclear or confusing. (more…)
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
 You’ve written your novel, autobiography, research journal article, short story, etc. Whatever you’ve written that you are serious about getting published deserves the time and attention of an online English editing service. Anyone who has written and hopes to be published should use an editor so that someone else can see his or her work objectively. Because you are the one writing, it is easy for you to overlook mistakes that you’ve made. It is important for you to read back over your work, correct errors, and make improvements. However, if you made an error in the first place, it is likely that you will not recognize it as an error when you re-read your work. This is especially true if you speak English as a second language (ESL). (more…)
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Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
 If you are serious about getting an A on your research project or succeeding in getting that novel or autobiography you’ve written published, then you should consider hiring a professional editor who will thoroughly correct your work. Everyone makes mistakes in writing; however, it is even more likely that if English is not your native language, you will make some errors, no matter how proficient you are.
Can’t a writer edit his or her own work? The simple answer is no. If you are the one who wrote the words, it is very likely that you will not notice your own mistakes. Of course, it is good to re-read and do a preliminary edit of your work. There are even some online resources that will help. (more…)
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