How to Perform a Soft Edit
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Article Title: How to Perform a Soft Edit
Author: Jane Sumerset
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Have you ever heard the term soft edit? What嚙編 the difference between a soft edit and editing we commonly heard? You might have wondered but soft edit is also a part in the writing process. It plays a very important role where every writer嚙編 must have to deal with it.
For longer pieces, such as booklets and multi-page reports, light editing might be necessary throughout various phases in the writing composition. Sure, you can perform a full edit once you嚙緞e completed the entirety of the piece, but a soft edit should let you clean up what you have in the meantime.
Why would you even want to edit before a complete draft? It depends upon you. Some people find it easier to proceed to the next phase of the content (e.g. the next chapter of a novel) when everything before it is sufficiently cleaned up. Others like having the basic facets of the text (e.g. grammar, spelling and readability) corrected early on, so they can focus on more complex portions of the piece during the latter parts of the writing process.
Besides, there are writer who prefer to edit their piece lightly so that they will never forget that there are things that needs to be polish. Editing these kinds of a writing material is really risky as it consumes most of your time scanning every pages of your write-ups. Then, you嚙緞e got to read the whole piece in order to spot grammatical and other writing errors. Soft editing will only help you to ease your work when you嚙締l do the editing process later on.
Running the text through a software-based writing tool, doing some basic proofreading and reading the copy for clarity are some of the quick steps you can employ during this activity. It won嚙緣 take plenty of time, but it should save you from a lot of corrections and adjustments that you may need to do to the text anyway if you perform a full edit later. Since it嚙編 a light edit, rather than a full on rewriting, try to avoid doing too much changes to the piece. Save the big work for later.
You can just clean up some mess like technical writing errors. You don嚙緣 need to revise the whole piece while doing a soft edit since it will only create a bigger mess within your unfinished passage. The revision process can be done after you had written the whole piece completely.
Let嚙編 say a light edit of one chapter shows you an average of ten things you could fix up. If you嚙緝e writing a book that features ten chapters, those are 100 things that will pile up with many others during a full edit. Getting rid of them early on with a light edit should make your later work just a tad less imposing.
That嚙編 how soft edit works. Usually, you can take charge of the spellings, punctuations, capitalizations and other simple error solving activities within a soft edit. Do always note that changing the whole concept or any ideas in your content must be done during the full edit process where revision took place.
About The Author: See how innovative Writing Software instantly can boost your writing skills and watch how NLP technology can help you to write perfect emails, letters, essays or reports. Visit: http://www.englishsoftware.org
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Article Title: How to Perform a Soft Edit
Author: Jane Sumerset
Word Count: 547
Article URL: http://www.isnare.com/?aid=499164&ca=Writing
Format: 64cpl
Contact The Author: http://www.isnare.com/eta.php?aid=499164
Easy Publish Tool: http://www.isnare.com/html.php?aid=499164
*********************** ARTICLE START ***********************
Have you ever heard the term soft edit? What嚙編 the difference between a soft edit and editing we commonly heard? You might have wondered but soft edit is also a part in the writing process. It plays a very important role where every writer嚙編 must have to deal with it.
For longer pieces, such as booklets and multi-page reports, light editing might be necessary throughout various phases in the writing composition. Sure, you can perform a full edit once you嚙緞e completed the entirety of the piece, but a soft edit should let you clean up what you have in the meantime.
Why would you even want to edit before a complete draft? It depends upon you. Some people find it easier to proceed to the next phase of the content (e.g. the next chapter of a novel) when everything before it is sufficiently cleaned up. Others like having the basic facets of the text (e.g. grammar, spelling and readability) corrected early on, so they can focus on more complex portions of the piece during the latter parts of the writing process.
Besides, there are writer who prefer to edit their piece lightly so that they will never forget that there are things that needs to be polish. Editing these kinds of a writing material is really risky as it consumes most of your time scanning every pages of your write-ups. Then, you嚙緞e got to read the whole piece in order to spot grammatical and other writing errors. Soft editing will only help you to ease your work when you嚙締l do the editing process later on.
Running the text through a software-based writing tool, doing some basic proofreading and reading the copy for clarity are some of the quick steps you can employ during this activity. It won嚙緣 take plenty of time, but it should save you from a lot of corrections and adjustments that you may need to do to the text anyway if you perform a full edit later. Since it嚙編 a light edit, rather than a full on rewriting, try to avoid doing too much changes to the piece. Save the big work for later.
You can just clean up some mess like technical writing errors. You don嚙緣 need to revise the whole piece while doing a soft edit since it will only create a bigger mess within your unfinished passage. The revision process can be done after you had written the whole piece completely.
Let嚙編 say a light edit of one chapter shows you an average of ten things you could fix up. If you嚙緝e writing a book that features ten chapters, those are 100 things that will pile up with many others during a full edit. Getting rid of them early on with a light edit should make your later work just a tad less imposing.
That嚙編 how soft edit works. Usually, you can take charge of the spellings, punctuations, capitalizations and other simple error solving activities within a soft edit. Do always note that changing the whole concept or any ideas in your content must be done during the full edit process where revision took place.
About The Author: See how innovative Writing Software instantly can boost your writing skills and watch how NLP technology can help you to write perfect emails, letters, essays or reports. Visit: http://www.englishsoftware.org
Please use the HTML version of this article at:
http://www.isnare.com/html.php?aid=499164
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