Editing

Evolving Language

Singular and plural revisited

What’s in a name?

How far should we go?

TLAs; or sometimes FLAs - what do you do?

Problems of Quantity

Abbreviations

Thinking of editing some work?

Ambiguity

One of the main reasons for needing to rewrite a sentence is because it is ambiguous. There are several reasons why a sentence may be ambiguous, and they might not always be obvious to you as the original writer.

Prescriptive vs Descriptive

I follow several editing groups on Facebook and LinkedIn. I have noticed that many of the editors in these groups, particularly those from the US, describe themselves as prescriptive or descriptive.