A Copyeditor’s Rant

During my disappearance from this blog, I spent a lot of my time proofreading, editing, and copyediting.

First, while people tend to use the terms interchangeably:

A proofreader checks text for syntax, spelling, punctuation, and other similar errors and corrects them. An editor may do the above, but also will consider the content of the piece, the order of sentences, meaning, style, how the author addresses the audience, and other, deeper issues. A copyeditor deals with text intended for pu...