​Copyediting

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With a completed draft, a copyedit can include all or some of the following, depending upon how clean the draft is:



• smooth transitions or help restructure sentences to improve readability
• suggest additions and deletions at the sentence and paragraph level
• query any conflicting statements, discrepancies, or places where the text may be unclear or confusing
• correct faulty spelling, grammar, and punctuation
• ensure consistency in spelling, hyphenation, numerals, fonts, and capitalization; and parallelism of headings
• correct incorrect word usage 
• eliminate wordiness, triteness, or redundancies
• note if permissions are needed
• check and verify cross-references
• prepare a style sheet listing particular spellings, or stylistic preferences
• code a manuscript for typesetting/design