Editing
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Every Editor Needs an Editor
With one hand my driver aimed her vintage VW through the maze of mid-town Manila traffic, and with the other…
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Headlines: Getting Off to a Good Start
Headlines may be the most important writing you’ll ever do. If your headline doesn’t work, the story may not even…
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Writing Good Captions
Next to headlines, captions may be the most-read words in your publication. Here are some guidelines for writing good captions. A…
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When Bad Manuscripts Happen to Good Editors
A toolkit of emergency repair ideas for the times when that article you really need turns out to be something…
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Grammar Rules you may have Missed
Here are a few things you may have missed in English class: Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects. Prepositions…
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Four out of Three Editors Should Proofread Numbers Better
There are three kinds of people in the world – those who are good with numbers and those who aren’t.…
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AP Style Rules at a Glance
Periods: They’re often omitted when abbreviating the name of an organization or iconic figure: CIA, FBI, VCU, JFK. Use periods to…
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Five Common Weaknesses Seen in Higher Goals Contest Entries
What with fake news, partisan press, and click-bait, there may well never have been a time when we have more…
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Things to NOT say to a Publisher
Former EPA editor-tuned-publisher Dale Hanso Bourke returned from the dark side of the force to give mere mortals a quick…
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What Does it Mean to Serve the Reader?
I suppose, if pressed, most of us would agree that we want to serve our readers. Even if it’s not…
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