What you need to know about editing

Editing is the process of improving the content, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and flow of writing.

• Everyone needs to edit their work.

• Writers–and people in many professions–do self-editing as well as group editing.

June Writers Academy recommends a three-step process for editing once you’ve written your first draft:

1. Clean up the text enough that you can follow your own content/argument.

2. Focus on improving the quality and clarity of your content/argument. Ignore everything else. 

3. Edit for words.