Copy Editing Samples: eContent Pro

Copy Editing Sample 1

3 Page Sample

Considerations Made During Copy Editing

The edits in this first paragraph were suggested in order to streamline the first two sentences and to ease flow for the reader, as well as enforce the spelling and punctuation rules set forth by the publisher of the work.

While this is a strongly written paragraph, there were still a number of edits suggested to further clarify and strengthen the text’s meaning, as well as insert missing punctuation. Additionally, per the publisher’s style manual, the word “Web” is to be capitalized.

The edits in this paragraph were suggested to clarify and strengthen the text’s meaning, creating a better flow for the reader, as well as correcting punctuation throughout.

Here the publisher’s capitalization rules for BPM, BML, and BPMN were honored as well as the corrections of additional punctuation errors. The copy editor also sought to streamline readability.

Since the meaning of this paragraph was difficult to understand, edits were suggested for clarity of meaning.

The edits here were made to strengthen the text, as well as implement the publisher’s style rules related to the use of the term, “service-oriented architecture.”

In addition to edits to correct punctuation and spelling per the publisher’s style rules, this paragraph also includes suggested edits to the first sentence to clarify its intended meaning.

This paragraph includes one inserted comma, suggested for readability.

“SOA” had already been introduced and did not need to be written out again. Additional changes seek stronger word usage and correct spelling per the publisher’s style rules.

The edits here were suggested to strengthen the text’s meaning, as well as introduce stronger punctuation and implement the publisher’s style rules for the term, “BPM suite.”

The edits here were suggested to streamline the flow of text for the reader, correct capitalization per the publisher’s style rules, and insert missing punctuation.

The edits here keep the text “parallel” (“the first section” / “the second section” / “the third section”) throughout the paragraph, as well as make the action stronger by streamlining text — for instance, changing “will describe” to “describe.” Punctuation and capitalization issues were also corrected.

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