Megan Taylor

My editing class began today. Here are a few helpful resources:

• Exercises from the Copy Editor’s Handbook for Newspapers
• The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
• The Scriptorium – our class blog
• Exercise Central for AP Style
• ACES Online Quizzes
• Your Dictionary
• A Spelling Test
• The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
• The Grouchy Grammarian
• The HyperTextBook

I really think the key to good editing is focus more than anything else. I’ve always read a lot, and that gives me a good sense of what looks right or wrong, and my background in Linguistics helps to identify complex parts of speech. But unless I force myself to slow down and really look at each sentence, I still make sloppy mistakes.