The Importance of Editing

My editing class began today.



Here are a few helpful resources:



Exercises from the Copy Editor's Handbook for Newspapers



The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy



The Scriptorium - our class blog



Exercise Central for AP Style



ACES Online Quizzes



Your Dictionary



A Spelling Test



The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation



The Grouchy Grammarian



The HyperTextBook



I really think the key to good editing is focus more than anything else. I've always read a lot, and that gives me a good sense of what looks right or wrong, and my background in Linguistics helps to identify complex parts of speech. But unless I force myself to slow down and really look at each sentence, I still make sloppy mistakes.