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Editing Criteria
Here are some of the specific issues Mundania Press will examine when reviewing your manuscript.
- Grammar
- Sentence fragments
- Parallelism
- Subject-verb agreement
- Verb tense
- Pronoun agreement
- Misplaced modifiers
- Punctuation
- Periods
- Commas
- Semicolons
- Colons
- Question marks
- Exclamation points
- Quotation marks
- Dashes
- Ellipsis points
- Apostrophes
- Spelling
- Capitalization
- Hyphenation
- Word usage
- Potentially sexist language
- Commonly misused words (i.e. their/they're/there, affect/effect)
- Obvious incorrect word choice
- Spelling-based on standard American English
- Hyphenation
- Capitalization
- Clear and consistent use of
- Numbers
- Digits vs. spelled out (99 vs. ninety-nine)
- Dates and time
- Percentages, decimals and fractions
- Notes, bibliographies and references to other works, if applicable.
- Potential issues with the manuscript such as:
- Does the author consistently use the same spelling of characters' names throughout the manuscript?
- Are there any continuity errors?
- Are there obvious errors within text quoted from other sources?
- Does author's manuscript contain excerpts from other sources for which they may wish to consider obtaining permission to quote?
- Are all biblical references correct and are scripture quotations accurately quoted?
- Do they correctly italicize the names of books, magazines, movies and television shows?
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