From the course: Writing Articles
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Edit your article
- So you've finished writing, congratulations! But don't break out the champagne just yet. You're not quite ready to publish or to submit your article to an editor until you've given it a thorough once over with your own editor's eye. It's this phase, the editing phase, that separates the amateurs from the pros, and that'll take your article from a serviceable composition to a polished gem. So how do you get it there? I'm going to show you. I like to print out my articles at this stage so that I can read them on paper. There's something about seeing them off my screen and in a new format that allows me to view them with fresh eyes and see weak spots that I didn't notice before. Now what are you looking for when you read back through your work? A few things. First you want to review your language, see if you can make any of your sentences more concise. Are there any unnecessary words you can delete? Can you cut out…
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