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Advanced editing exercises by Tony1; Copy-editing essentials, courtesy of the Military History Academy; General advice on how to improve your prose from Tony1; Exercises in paragraphing and sentence structure from Tony1; Military History WikiProject A-class and FAC checklist; The best professional-level copy editing guide is the Chicago Manual ...
The Guild maintains a Copy Edit Requests Page, where editors can request copy edits on articles they are working to develop and improve, or want to nominate for Good Article, A-class or Featured Article status. We try to complete requests quickly, but waiting times are variable. We do not guarantee that articles we copy edit will be accepted at ...
Be prepared to do basic copy-editing beforehand. Often, copy-editors and those with substantive knowledge of the topic and its sources will need to interact to produce a professional article. This can be done on the article's talk page and in invisible comments to other editors, which can be inserted into the body of the article text. Take care ...
Examples of non-professional copy editing in progress [1] [2]. Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of emending written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style and accuracy.
According to Butcher's Copy-editing: The good copyeditor is a rare creature: an intelligent reader and a tactful and sensitive critic; someone who cares enough about the perfection of detail to spend time checking small points of consistency in someone else's work but has the good judgement not to waste time or antagonize the author by making ...
Often, copy-editors and those with the substantive knowledge of the topic and its sources will need to interact to produce the professional product. This can occur both on the talk page and in invisible comments to other editors, which can be inserted into the body of the article text.
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Below are exercises which workshop participants may copy to a sandbox and edit. Use Wikipedia:Sandbox or create one as a subpage of your user page. (Workshop participants and Workshop project editors, please discuss the exercises, or suggest new or replacement exercises on this project page's talk page.)