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Edit the page by clicking the "Edit" or "Edit source" tab near the top of it or one of the section [edit source] links. Step three Make your changes and fill out an edit summary. Be helpful to the editors who follow you by giving a summary of what you have done. Simple "Copy edit" is fine, but "Edited for tone" is even better.
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Example of non-professional copy editing in progress [1]. Copy editing (also known as copyediting and manuscript editing) is the process of revising written material ("copy") to improve quality and readability, as well as ensuring that a text is free of errors in grammar, style, and accuracy.
Example checklist. While the check sheets discussed above are all for capturing and categorizing observations, the checklist is intended as a mistake-proofing aid when carrying out multi-step procedures, particularly during the checking and finishing of process outputs. This type of check sheet consists of the following:
The sandbox, in edit mode. The text in the box (the edit box) is only an example—what you see will depend on what the other editors have just done to the page. The edit toolbar along the top of the edit box is standard; it provides one-click options for the most common kinds of formatting of content. Also standard is all the text between the ...
Levels of edit (or levels of editing) describes a cumulative or categorical scheme for revising text.Beginning as a tool to standardize communication between writers and editors at a government laboratory, [1] the levels of edit has been adopted and modified by the general public and academics in professional communication and technical communication.
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is a December 2009 non-fiction book by Atul Gawande. It was released on December 22, 2009, through Metropolitan Books and focuses on the use of checklists in relation to several elements of daily and professional life. [ 1 ]
When editing in the visual mode, write the section name and use the "Paragraph" button in the toolbar to select the heading or sub-heading style you want to apply to it. When editing in "Edit source" mode, place = signs around the heading's text, for example: ==Main heading== ===Sub-heading=== ==New main heading== See Help:Section for more details.