ACES 2018

Amid today's avalanche of words, what approach should an editor take? Is the author's "voice" more important than the reader's time?

I'm an aggressive editor. I'm also a deft linguistic surgeon. A quarter-century of newspaper editing and eight years as executive editor for Ragan Communications have taught me how to wield machete and scalpel.

Let's look, for example, at when "conversational tone" devolves into sloppy writing. (That's a favorite topic: http://bit.ly/2HulAae)
 
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