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Editing can be challenging, especially when you’re deeply invested in your writing. Often, it’s hard to identify what needs fixing. AI tools like AutoCrit and ChatGPT are transforming the editing ...

Serenity Software’s Editor finds grammar and word usage mistakes that your word processor may miss. As a writer and an editor, I have a love-hate relationship with Serenity Software’s Editor (various ...

Some teachers and scholars may merge editing and revising, and that is OK because there is one less step, but the same amount of work is undertaken. So what is revision? In simplest terms, it may mean ...

You know how you can be listening to someone talk, nodding and thinking, “Yes. Yes. I agree. I know. Duh.” — and then they say something that stops you cold? That happened to me when I chaired a panel ...

How do you write an article, book, short story or poem that’s a pleasure to read? It’s a daunting challenge, and school is generally poor preparation for it. Teachers and professors have to slog ...

An experienced editor shows how well-crafted words can help us serve God and neighbor. Rarely does an aspiring writer get invited to sit with an ink-dyed editor to hash over the finer points of ...

As someone who’s been involved in journalism since middle school, I’d like to think that the research, analysis and language skills needed to craft a news article are unique to humans. ChatGPT, a new ...