Editing services by Heather Wallace, PhD
What kind of feedback helps us improve the quality of our writing, and where can we find it? We need information about what is going on in the minds of our readers when they read our work.
How can we get better at writing clearly? Practice. But how can we practice academic writing? Here are three steps to train yourself to become a better writer.
In this Writing is Thinking Sentence Makeover, we make small changes to a sentence that lead to big questions about meaning. In cleaning up the sentence we confront the question, what precise claim is the author making here?
Everyone can benefit from using an editor, but the specific benefits depend on what each writer needs. To see other writing profiles, click here. The intellectual in the weeds can use an editor to see their own writing through the
Everyone can benefit from using an editor, but the specific benefits depend on what each writer needs. To see other writing profiles, click here. The busy scholar can use an editor to accelerate the writing process. Writing and revising is
When I describe the signature Writing is Thinking Editing approach, I make a bold claim: that for most writers, much of the time, there is a gap between what their sentence says and what it is meant to say. This
When we change a sentence, we change what the sentence says. Even small changes to a sentence—replacing a pronoun, changing the position of commas, finding a more specific verb—contribute to ensuring that a sentence says what it is supposed to
You’d like to think your education has carried you well past short sentences. But you’ve been delivered into a wilderness of false assumptions and bad habits, A desert of jargon and weak constructions, a land of linguistic barbarism,* A place
The Writing is Thinking approach starts with short sentences. Experimenting with short sentences is the first lesson in Verlyn Klinkenborg’s brilliant writing book Several Short Sentences about Writing. Klinkenborg writes: There’s nothing wrong with well-made, strongly constructed, purposeful long sentences.But