Tag: self-editing
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Tips for Self-Editing: The Active Versus Passive Voice
If you tuned in to last week’s blog posts, you’ll have seen some guidelines for self-editing that touch on basic grammatical edits, with the active versus passive voice as one of them. Friday’s post offered a general overview of the differences, but let’s dive a little deeper into the nuances of these two sentence structures.…
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The Importance of Self-Editing: Tips for Editing Your First Draft
When creating any type of writing, whether that be fiction, non-fiction, technical, or academic, the first draft is not going to be perfect, no matter how much every writer hopes theirs is. You’ll more than likely go through a few drafts before you begin to feel satisfied with the quality of your work. A lot…
