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Tag: under-editing

Article: “A Machete or a Razor”

November 25, 2020

“Good editing is invisible. Bad editing is painfully obvious—usually because the editor has, instead of clarifying the author’s intent, attempted to rewrite in the editor’s own style. Editors are there to remove, rearrange, and altogether improve, not to make the writing their own.”

Read more at ACES: The Society for Editing.

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