Developmental Editing


As your developmental editor, I will perform an in-depth assessment of your entire manuscript. Based on how you describe your audience (or ideal reader) I will examine and provide feedback of Big Picture elements:
  • ​Title-content connection (or suggestions, if desired)
  • The "so what?" element
  • Thesis
  • Overall content and organization
  • Chapter, sections, and sub-sections
  • Veracity (21 Elements)*
  • "Top 10" (strongest elements)
  • "Bottom 10" (weakest elements)
  • Conclusion & calls-to-action
* These are the major areas I look for in the Veracity category: 
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​Definitional Concerns 
  • Conflation
  • Equivocation
  • Vagueness
  • Ambiguity
  • Over-simplification
     Logical Errors
  • Self-defeating statements
  • Disconfirming evidence
  • Un(der)warranted claims
  • Missing references 
  • Non Sequiturs 
  • Question-begging
  • Circular reasoning
  • Negative inferences
  • False dilemmas
  • Disanalogy
  • Post hoc rationalizations
  • Inconsistencies ​
  • Overstatements
  • Evidence of bias
  • Straw-man/caricatures
  • Ad hominem​​​​​