What is editing?
Once you have developed and structured your manuscript and are satisfied with its shape, it is time to bring in a copy editor. The copy editor goes down to the sentence level of your prose and focuses on grammatical and spelling errors, inconsistencies, and syntactic mishaps that reduce readability. The main concern here is mechanical correctness, consistency and language flow. Some of the things editors look at include: Punctuation Hyphenation Capitalization Spelling Gramma