Editing Visual Components
Visuals aren’t just those pretty things that push the words aside. Graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and other illustrations help readers make sense of complex ideas. They help the reader orient to the...
View ArticleGraph Guidelines
Graphs can quickly convey relationships and trends between and among data in ways that a data table or text narrative struggles to achieve. Each type of graph has a purpose that it is best suited for....
View ArticleEditing the Visuals, with ECE Editors
How are the word specialists (editors) supposed to know if a visual communicates its intended meaning? Advice from the contributors of ECE3 today — in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com — on...
View ArticleLearn to Assess Visuals
Some resources that will help you learn to assess visuals for their ability to communicate and their suitability to the medium. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, so that you can meet the...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Fuzzy Pictures
Gone are the days of 72 dpi resolution for on-screen images. With today’s HD, 4K, and Retina screens, viewer will think that looks fuzzy. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I explain why....
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