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Tips from a Monitor copy editor
I鈥檝e been a copy editor here at the Monitor for almost three years. Copy editors are the last ones to see a story before it hits newsstands or inboxes, or wherever you read your news. We check spelling, grammar, and punctuation, and enforce myriad institutional rules that get summed up as 鈥渟tyle.鈥�
I鈥檓 leaving the Monitor for a new adventure. But first, here are my top three tips from your friendly neighborhood copy editor:
鈥� Be consistent. Use a serial comma or don鈥檛; use an en dash or an em dash. But mixing two styles is like MiXiNg CaPiTaLizAtIoN.
鈥� Use the correct homophone, even though you won鈥檛 鈥渉ere鈥� the difference.
鈥� Also, too, never ever use repetitive redundancies. If you鈥檝e said it once, that鈥檚 probably enough. More than once is too many.
When in doubt, do it with a smile. Or at least with a smile emoji.
