Where do they *find* these 'copyeditors' and how can I get them to hire me instead?
Personally, I'm a great fan of electronic copyediting; I can ensure continuity better, I can erase my mistakes without trace, I can mark particularly tangled sentences for later and I can read a clean copy of the edited text to find the smaller problems I'd left in in the first pass.
And yes, I currently have to pull out sentences and dump them in a new file to separate them from the sea of red, because otherwise I'd lose the plot completely. (Nonfiction, ESL author.)
There are benefits to electronic copyediting, but for most people, alas, "greater accuracy" is not one of them.
I strongly suspect this was the copyeditor who is very good at continuity issues, works cheap, and is very speedy; but who also SUCKS at mechanics (and did so when she worked on paper).
The author seems generally competent, so I hope she'll spot all the errors in first pass.
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Personally, I'm a great fan of electronic copyediting; I can ensure continuity better, I can erase my mistakes without trace, I can mark particularly tangled sentences for later and I can read a clean copy of the edited text to find the smaller problems I'd left in in the first pass.
And yes, I currently have to pull out sentences and dump them in a new file to separate them from the sea of red, because otherwise I'd lose the plot completely. (Nonfiction, ESL author.)
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I strongly suspect this was the copyeditor who is very good at continuity issues, works cheap, and is very speedy; but who also SUCKS at mechanics (and did so when she worked on paper).
The author seems generally competent, so I hope she'll spot all the errors in first pass.
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