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Editing in Desktop Publishing
Editing involves re-writing, fixing mistakes, and making changes requested by a supervisor or a customer. Learn how to edit your work and the work of others.
A Copy Editor's Checklist
If editing a news story, here's what to look for.
Editing Checklist
Grammar & Composition Guide Richard Nordquist offers 12 items to check when editing an essay. These editing steps are applicable to all types of writing projects.
Editing Exercises
Think you know how to edit? Try your hand at these news stories.
Five Ways to Cut Down Your Word Count
Edit, edit, edit even while you're writing.
Revise, Revise Again: Seven Steps to Flawless Work
Find yourself missing glaring mistakes? Use this process.
Self-edit
From About Grammar and Composition, describes how to not waste words in your writing with 5 Tips to Cut the Clutter in Your Writing.
Spelling Rules
Guide Richard Nordquist tells us that "the only fool-proof rule is that all spelling rules in English have exceptions." But he also offers these four spelling rules that can help writers remember how to spell certain types of words.