Looking for a copyeditor? This is what to look for.
Ernest Hemingway famously said that the first draft of anything is shit. And he was right. This is because your first pass is rife with personal biases: what you’d understand, find interesting or deem relevant. Even the way you present your argument is one-sided (even if it’s not), because it’s coming from one person: you.
Part of a copyeditor’s training is to see past those biases to what you’re trying to convey or elicit, and help you bring it out clearly.
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