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Article: “Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know about Copyediting in Less than 300 Words”

March 22, 2019

Some gems from this article on ACESeditors include:

• All you need to know about semicolons is that Shirley Jackson liked them.

• If it starts with a capital letter, look it up.

• People don’t need to nod their heads, they can just nod. What else are you going to nod, your elbow?

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