Questions, answered
The same question has a different answer depending on who is asking. What an editor may do to a novel is not what an editor may do to a dissertation, and the rules that govern one have nothing to say about the other. These pages are grouped by who is asking.
Every checkable claim carries a source, and where nobody has published an answer, the page says so rather than inventing one.
- Anyone with a document A report, a proposal, a submission, a manual. One document that has to be right. 6 pages
- Book authors Novels, memoir, and nonfiction, from the first draft to the second edition. 25 pages
- Business and government work Bids, reports, policies, and the standards a document has to survive. 6 pages
- Screenwriters Features and pilots, the rules competitions publish, and how a credit is decided. 6 pages
- Journal articles Papers for peer review, and the rules about who may be named on them. 6 pages
- Theses and dissertations What an editor may touch, what your university permits, and where the line sits. 6 pages