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Editing content

How a good editor can build your confidence as a writer

May 19, 2020August 25, 2017 by Patrick Barnes

In talking to people about the idea of How’s my English, we often heard about bad experiences with editors in the past: “They changed everything and I didn’t understand what I did wrong.”

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Why we don’t charge per word for editing content

May 19, 2020August 17, 2017 by Patrick Barnes

Charging by the word to edit content is bad for the client, for the editor and for the content’s eventual audience – here’s why.

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Editing – well uh, that’s just, like your opinion, man

May 19, 2020May 22, 2017 by Patrick Barnes
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Sometimes we’re asked whether we have editing qualifications – to justify why we make the changes we do to a given piece of content. “We can see it’s better,” we’re asked, “but why?”

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If you want to proofread your text, print it!

May 19, 2020May 7, 2017 by Patrick Barnes

Each piece of content we deal with at How’s my English goes through a multi-stage editing process, depending on its purpose. But we always start the same way – by printing it.

The first stage of our editing process involves printing out the content we’re working with and making notes with an actual pen!

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