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Why Editing? Achieving effective, clear and elegant writing

Why Use an Editor?

Your professional credibility increases through skillful communication.

Even if you are a good writer a professional editor will help perfect your writing. An editor works with you, while retaining your original meaning, voice and style.

An editor examines all writing and graphics from the readers' point of view, catching problems that you may overlook.

Also, an editor knows publishing standards and methods that you might not know.

Technical and specialist experts have additional problems in writing:

• An expert's own knowledge level may interfere with being able to adopt “beginner’s mind” to write well for nontechnical readers.

• An expert may assume wrongly that readers understand something that the expert takes for granted or does without even thinking about it—because of being so familiar with that process.

• The expert might leave out a needed step or other information—because the step seems so obvious to the technician.

• A nonexpert reader may have predictable questions that the expert doesn’t even realize need to be answered.

Max Perkins

Admired as the editor for several major writers --- including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe --- Maxwell Perkins demonstrates the value of a good editor to even the best of writers.

“Maxwell Perkins was unknown to the general public, but to people in the world of books he was a major figure, a kind of hero. For he was the consummate editor.”

---A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

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Bryan A. Garner

“Some people still want to use the language well. They want to write effectively; they want to speak effectively.

They want their language to be graceful at times and powerful at times…

They want good grammar, but they want more...they want to use language deftly so that it's fit for their purposes.”