Archive: Editing

How to Be a Coaching Editor and Help Writers Develop

How to Be a Coaching Editor and Help Writers Develop

Feb 23, 2016 | Editing

A business manager who wants to get the most out of her writers should be a coaching editor who builds a collaborative relationship. Managers might not think of themselves as editors, but they are, given that they oversee the written content that their team produces....
Think Like a Writer AND an Editor

Think Like a Writer AND an Editor

Jan 27, 2016 | Editing, Effective Writing

The writing craft requires that you think like both a writer and an editor because at the end of the drafting process, the two tasks are intertwined. Writing has three phases: drafting, revising, where you make changes and rewrite, and then editing. Many people think...

Be Careful when Removing “That”

Jan 22, 2014 | Editing, Effective Writing

The word “that” is often unnecessary, but not always. Be sure you don’t cause readers to stumble. “Get rid of ‘that’; you don’t need it” is common advice, but as is often true with nuggets of wisdom about writing, it...

Being an Effective Editor: Collaborate with the Writer

Jun 20, 2013 | Editing

Being an effective editor means that you encourage a writer by working collaboratively. One way to do that is to let the writer have a voice. It is a familiar scene: A writer walks into the manager’s office to discuss a draft that the manager has edited, and the...

Structure Sentences for Variety and Emphasis

Nov 15, 2012 | Editing, Effective Writing

 We are familiar with the subject-verb-object sentence structure, but a series of consecutive sentences constructed that way is boring to read. Add a little variety to make the writing more lively and more emphatic. Part of what distinguishes good writing is that...