Copyeditors and editors – what’s the difference?
Copyeditors are responsible for finding and removing all grammar, syntax and usage problems.
Journal editors make suggestions for content, organization, and logical flow.
Editors and referees make suggestions for deleting sentences, paragraphs, or whole sections, and for adding new text for detail and clarification.
My work is somewhere in-between – I deal with language and content.
I’m always looking for ways to improve a writer’s mechanics – that’s my main responsibility. But I also make suggestions for changes that can improve a manuscript’s logical flow or argument.
I express my suggestions in ways that you can easily accept or reject. You make the decisions, my job is to provide support!