Category: Editing
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Over the last two months, I’ve begun copyediting for the APA Blog, and I’ve also begun the last course for my copyediting certificate, offered by UC San Diego Extended Studies. So I’ve been thinking a lot about how to edit academic writing to be clear and even stylish. In this post, I’ll explain how I…
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During the last several years, I’ve slowly been completing a copyediting certificate program. Part of the motivation for this additional training is that I realized editing is a skill that can benefit from training. A lot of academics think editing is just “proofreading,” by which they mean “catching typos” or fixing bibliographies. However, I’ve come…