Learning to match someone else’s writing voice is part skill, part analysis. Here’s how to study your own style, break down theirs, and blend the two seamlessly.
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Breaking into Copyediting, Part 1: Training Required
There’s a popular idea that if you’re good at spotting typos, you can be a copyeditor. Spotting typos shows an eye for—and an interest in—details, and that’s a great start. But there’s so much more to catch. A colleague recently shared some typical editing math. Given 15,540 words in a book chapter (62 manuscript pages)
