What we do (cont'd)

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Revising the content, organization, or tone of a manuscript, or doing all three. May also involve writing transitions and summaries, rewording portions of the text, incorporating feedback from one or more reviewers, and working with the author to clarify text, set proper tone, and, if appropriate, making sections read as if written by one person.

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Revising text to ensure proper usage (punctuation, spelling, grammar, sentence construction) and format.

Also includes maintaining consistency by adhering to client's existing style or creating a new style sheet. Not to be confused with literary style, editorial style lays out the client's conventions for capitalizing words, using foreign terms, compounding terms, keeping language unbiased, etc.

Copyediting may also involve querying author about ambiguities and seeming inaccuracies.