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Dave Harris, Ph.D. Editor & Coach.



Editing

General Principles of Editing:
The editor helps authors express their ideas as clearly as possible. Commonly the overall editing task comprises three components: content and substantive editing, copyediting and proofreading.

Content and Substantive Editing:
Reading of work to examine logical structure and expression of ideas, discussion of strengths and weaknesses and recommendations for future work. Such editing is focused on making comments and suggestions about the large-scale issues of the work, but may include rewriting of some sentences.

Copy-editing:
Copy-editing looks at the sentences and paragraphs of a work with the intention of clearing up the use of language, thus making the document more readable. Copy-editing is concerned with clearing up ambiguities in sentences, improving word choice and other issues related to clearly expressing the author's ideas.

Proofreading:
Correction of basic grammar, spelling, punctuation and typing. Larger problems may be flagged.


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Thanks so much, Dave! It has been enormously helpful. Btw, I really value your feedback in the summary feedback doc. Very astute and all around helpful stuff. I really appreciate that you *read* as well as edited.
 Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley -- Ph.D., City and Regional Planning,
College of Environmental Design,
University of California, Berkeley



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