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Hire a copyeditor.
Instead, I got a brief phone call on Tuesday from another Journatic exec, who said they wanted me to stay on as a copyeditor.
Elizabeth (Liz) Asborno has worked in publishing for more than thirty years as a copyeditor, proofreader, layout artist, graphic designer, typographer, production manager, art director, and print buyer.
Does a copyeditor need to be knowledgeable about a field in order to edit a document devoted to that particular field?
She was a fact checker for the final edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and later worked as a copyeditor at The University of Chicago Press and Northwestern University Press, where she edited books in both English and French.
In 1972 she moved to New York City where she joined Simon and Schuster Publishing as a copyeditor in their Trade Books Department, rising to the position of vice president.
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If you don't have anyone on staff qualified to review a candidate's work samples, find a competent copyeditor to help you.
If a sentence just doesn't flow the way it should, a good copyeditor will improve the sentence by rearranging or rewriting it.
A good copyeditor will clean up your writing and make the dull parts shine.
A good copyeditor needs to know how to write, edit and fact check under pressure.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com