Editing description with mywritingcenter.org

Editing description
The more changes we make to a text, the more we move from basic copyediting into structural editing (and eventually rewriting). This requires analytical skills, an ear for tone, and lateral thinking.

Improving structure can improve consistency with the overall objectives of the text, and improve traction with audiences;

Cutting length can achieve the same, and brings new opportunities for structure: the two usually happen in parallel.

Writing and editing software can assist with this process. But we have to take active writing decisions too, if we are to evaluate decisions made by AI. It is well established that we struggle even to read, if other literacies (listening, speaking, questioning and creating) are not also engage