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What is Developmental Editing?
Developmental editing focuses on the big-picture elements of a written work. It involves deep feedback on structure, content, and organization to help shape the manuscript into a strong, coherent, and compelling piece.
Developmental editing includes:
What is Line Editing? Line editing is a sentence-level edit focused on improving the style, flow, and clarity of your writing. Unlike copyediting, which addresses technical correctness, line editing is about enhancing the voice, rhythm, and readability of your prose.
Line editing includes:
What is Copyediting? Copyediting is the process of polishing written content to ensure it is clear, correct, consistent, and ready for publication. A copyeditor reviews your work at the sentence level to refine language and fix technical issues without changing your voice or message.
Copyediting includes:
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Developmental editing focuses on the big-picture elements of a written work. It involves deep feedback on structure, content, and organization to help shape the manuscript into a strong, coherent, and compelling piece.
Developmental editing includes:
- Evaluating overall structure, pacing, and organization
- Strengthening plot, themes, or central arguments
- Analyzing character development and motivation (for fiction)
- Improving flow and logical progression of ideas
- Identifying gaps, inconsistencies, or unclear sections
- Suggesting additions, deletions, or reordering of content
- Ensuring the work meets its intended purpose and audience expectations
What is Line Editing? Line editing is a sentence-level edit focused on improving the style, flow, and clarity of your writing. Unlike copyediting, which addresses technical correctness, line editing is about enhancing the voice, rhythm, and readability of your prose.
Line editing includes:
- Rewriting or refining sentences for clarity and impact
- Enhancing word choice, tone, and narrative flow
- Eliminating redundancy, wordiness, and awkward phrasing
- Varying sentence structure to improve pacing and rhythm
- Strengthening transitions between sentences and paragraphs
- Maintaining consistency in voice and style throughout the piece
- Suggesting improvements to dialogue, imagery, or tone
What is Copyediting? Copyediting is the process of polishing written content to ensure it is clear, correct, consistent, and ready for publication. A copyeditor reviews your work at the sentence level to refine language and fix technical issues without changing your voice or message.
Copyediting includes:
- Correcting grammar, spelling, and punctuation errors
- Ensuring consistency in tone, tense, and terminology
- Fixing awkward or unclear sentence structures
- Checking for proper word usage and eliminating redundancies
- Applying a specific style guide (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
- Light fact-checking for accuracy and consistency
- Flagging any confusing or contradictory statements
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