Category: English Editing

Some writers lose patience with methodical planning. Either they cannot generate enough ideas in the first place, or else they…

For many people who ‘live by the word’ – Public officials, PR spokesmen, advertisers, campaigners, and the like – euphemism…

Consider the following two versions of a text the conclusion of a short story written for a training course. The…

Here are extracts from two editorial articles in The Times of London. They appeared on the same day – 82…

Rearrange the following seven sentences into the well-structured paragraph they originally formed. (Just to establish the context: in the book…

Here is a clever transition or ‘bridge’ between two items on a weekly magazine programme  on the radio. Following an…

Here are a few captivating opening paragraphs or sentences from various novels. Non-fiction too reads all the better for an…

Consider the following overloaded sentence from a newspaper. Professional  journalists, no matter how hurried, really should do better than this:…