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    How to Craft Strong Titles in Academic Writing

    How to Craft Strong Titles in Academic Writing

    Oct 11, 2022

    • Academic Writing
    • Editing Tips
    • Style

    In academic writing, a strong title hooks the reader, reflects the tone and content of the paper, and contains keywords to increase the paper’s visibility on search engines. If you’re an editor working with academic clients, you may need to highlight issues in their titles and subtitles. Read on for some tips on how to […]

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    The Bad Big Wolf? A Proofreader’s Guide to Adjective Order

    The Bad Big Wolf? A Proofreader’s Guide to Adjective Order

    Oct 08, 2022

    • Common Errors
    • ESL Writing
    • Grammar
    • Proofreading Tips

    If the phrases “black little dress” and “red dry wine” sound strange in your head, you have intrinsic knowledge of English adjective order. When we use multiple adjectives to modify a noun or nouns, they don’t fall into a random sequence. Rather, they follow a pattern based on their function. In fact, most native English […]

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Narrative Structure: A Guide to Freytag’s Pyramid

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    Common Fallacies (and How to Fix Them)

    Oct 01, 2022

    • Academic Writing
    • Common Errors
    • Editing Tips

    Logical fallacies are deceptive or false arguments that use faulty reasoning to shift the direction of a discussion away from the main point. Whether you’re writing a critical essay or having a heated discussion with your neighbor, being aware of logical fallacies can help you build stronger arguments and establish credibility. As an academic editor, […]

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    What Is an Executive Summary? (And How to Edit One)

    Sep 21, 2022

    • Business Writing
    • Editing Tips
    • Proofreading Tips

    If you’re an editor who specializes in business writing, you’ll need to know what an executive summary is and how to edit one.  Executive summaries are key to saving time and resources. They allow busy professionals to quickly understand the main points of a report, proposal, or business plan. But what goes into a good […]

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    How to Proofread and Edit an Academic CV

    Sep 15, 2022

    • Academic Writing
    • Editing Tips
    • Proofreading Tips

    If you’ve worked with professional CVs before, you may feel prepared to proofread and edit an academic CV. But there are some important differences between professional and academic CVs that you should know about. In this blog post, we give a brief guide to the content and structure of an academic CV and set out […]

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    The Inverted Pyramid in Journalism

    Sep 14, 2022

    • Business Writing
    • Editing Tips

    The inverted pyramid is a handy tool used by journalists and business writers to structure their work. Understanding the inverted pyramid and how it’s used will help you to edit this form of writing. In this post, we explain the basics of the inverted pyramid so that you can use it to help assess your […]

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    How to Use the 5 “W”s (and 1 H)

    Sep 01, 2022

    • Business Writing
    • Editing Tips

    The five “W”s are a principle widely used in journalism and copywriting, so they are worth understanding if you want to edit these types of writing. In this post, we’ll set out the basics of the five “W”s and how you can use them as an editor. What Are the Five “W”s? The five “W”s […]

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    Proofreading Tips: When Should You Write Out Numbers in Full?

    Aug 12, 2022

    • Proofreading Tips
    • Style

    Style guides vary a lot on even the basics of how to write numbers. APA style, for instance, recommends writing out numbers under 10 as words and using numerals for larger numbers. But Chicago style recommends writing out numbers up to and including 100. And MLA style recommends writing out any number that can be […]

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    Common Clichés (And How to Avoid Them)

    Common Clichés (And How to Avoid Them)

    Aug 10, 2022

    • Common Errors
    • Editing Tips
    • Proofreading Tips

    Part of your job as a proofreader or editor is to help your client avoid clichés in their writing. This will involve highlighting overused terms and phrases and suggesting less clichéd alternatives. But to do this, you’ll first need to know what clichéd language is and how to spot it. This is where our guide […]

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    5 Questions to Ask When Editing a Listicle

    5 Questions to Ask When Editing a Listicle

    Aug 03, 2022

    • Business Writing
    • Editing Tips
    • Formatting

    If you edit articles or blog posts for business clients, at some point you’ll probably need to edit one of the most popular formats out there nowadays – the listicle. As the name suggests, a listicle is a piece of writing that organizes its sections as a numbered list – just like this post, in […]

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