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This is a brief description of what technical editors provide to their clients and how important their work can be to helping laypersons understand the subject matter. Technical editing is not very different from general editing with the exception that the subject area (and thus, the vocabulary) requires...

hort Story Publication – No matter how fantastic the short story you have written may be, without a solid title the chances are good that an editor and audience in general will simply not read it. The title is the most important part of the story as this is what first captures the reader’s attention. A...

Deciding to self-publish – When most people think of publishing, the big publishing houses in New York and London come to mind. However, self-publishing is also an option, and although most successful self-published works are classics of literature written and produced before the advent of the major...

Among the many challenges of secondary English editing, or editing writers using English as a second language, is deciphering meaning in some unclear sentences. A good copy editor should never, ever guess at the meaning. There’s no shame in querying the writer. FirstEditing.com has a huge client for...

The following article details the three top ways to avoid writer’s block when writing a research paper, thesis, or dissertation. First of all, schedule specific writing times in your calendar.  Secondly, make sure you take plenty of breaks and have a plan for dealing with stress. Finally, try not to...