Advice and Articles tagged with editing
Editing and Proofreading Tips for Bloggers
Blogs are easy to access, easy to create, and often easy to read. Unfortunately, the relatively simple nature of blogs and blogging often breeds a careless mindset when generating a post. Individuals are often too caught up in the thrill of their story or opinion to properly edit or proofread their piece. Continued...
Organizing Information for Business Writing
While it's natural to simply want to put pen to paper and begin plugging away at that technical document or business proposal, a little planning before you begin to write may save you from a room full of blank stares at the next office meeting. Continued...
Avoiding Redundancies
While literary geniuses are free to flout style conventions, we mere mortals must adhere to them. So how do you purge your paper of redundancies? Continued...
Digging Deeper for Excellent Commentary
You've created the blueprint for a perfect paper: outlined the framework, devised a great thesis statement and located enough evidence to support your argument. What remains to be done, is to analyze those facts in original and intriguing ways. Continued...
Improve Your Essay: Great Writing Is in the Details
Even the best writing needs good editing before it really shines. If you've been told time and again that you have great ideas but your writing needs polishing, you aren't alone. The following suggestions can help you buff up your prose. Continued...
How to Write a Doctoral Dissertation/Thesis—Part Two
This is the second article in a series that outlines the mechanics of doctorial dissertation writing. It provides potential PhDs with tips on how to handle the difficult tasks of selecting a thesis topic, a supervisor and a thesis committee. Continued...
How to Write a Doctoral Dissertation/Thesis—Part Three
Here we look at the mechanics of writing, editing and proofreading a thesis in greater detail. Continued...
How to Write a CV or Resume
Your formal resume (or CV, curriculum vitae, for academics) is a summary of your education and job experience. It is the all-important document that will be your first impression to a prospective employer. Continued...
ESL Writing Tips
You are a professional and are very proficient at academic writing in your first language, but when it comes to translating your work into written English, suddenly you don't know your "ifs" from your "ofs." Continued...
Editing versus Proofreading
It's common for many people, including business professionals and first-time Scribendi.com clients, to be a bit unclear about the differences between editing and proofreading. Continued...
Hyphenation
Are hyphens causing havoc in your humanities papers? Have dashes destroyed your dissertation? Don't let punctuation puzzle you any longer; Scribendi.com's editing and proofreading services are here to help. Continued...
10 Reasons to Hire a Professional Editor
Good writing comes from good, professional editing. A good editor does more than correct mistakes. The following are 10 reasons to hire an editor or a professional editing service like Scribendi.com. Continued...
Editing and Proofreading Tips—Part One
One of the most common weaknesses that pervades many documents submitted to Scribendi.com's editing and proofreading services, especially academic papers, is the overuse of passive voice. Continued...
Editing and Proofreading Tips—Part Two
This is the second in a series of articles addressing several common grammatical issues. This article explains phantom or one-sided comparisons, which might be the most prevalent issue of all, particularly in academic papers. Continued...
Editing and Proofreading Tips—Part Three
This is the third article in a series that addresses several commonly repeated issues and problems noted in papers submitted to Scribendi.com for proofreading and editing. The article explains what Scribendi.com editors call the wandering or misplaced only. Continued...
The Comma—Part One
The comma is the most important punctuation mark for ensuring clarity in a sentence, but it is often incorrectly used, sometimes with comical results. Continued...
The Comma—Part Two
Let's continue looking at some additional grammatical constructions that call for comma usage. Continued...
Fleshing Out Your Plot
You have started your story, you have the main ideas but how should you flesh it, how should you add meat to the bones? Continued...
How to Write a Doctoral Dissertation/Thesis—Part One
Making the decision to pursue a PhD degree is a significant commitment. Even if undertaken on a full-time basis, you will be committing several years of your life to a process with no certain outcome. Continued...
Scribendi.com Tops 250,000,000 Words Edited
Earlier today, our team of dedicated professional editors checked the 250 millionth word of text to be entrusted to our company. Continued...
