EPN (EDITING)

EDITING:

Editing involves looking at each sentence carefully, and making sure that it’s well designed and serves its purpose.

You can begin the process of editing after you’re satisfied with the structure, content, and coherence of your document (as a whole and in specific parts).

Editing and proofing both focus on the sentence level.  Editing is different from proofreading because it involves questioning and analyzing sentences, whereas proofreading only involves checking them for error.  When editing:

    Read each sentence carefully and identify its function in the paragraph; ask yourself how you might redesign the sentence to more effectively accomplish that goal
    Analyze the sentences that precede and follow the sentence you’re focusing on.  Are the connections between these sentences clear, or do you need to insert transitions between them?
  
Evaluate the design of each individual sentence; in doing so, employ the following principles:

1. Manage Sentence Length
2. Strengthen the Grammatical Core of the sentence (Subject-Verb-Object)