Copyeditors Can Do It In Different Styles

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Having studied the Comma Sutra and all the numerous ways to conjugate, copyeditors can satisfy even the most demanding, whether its a predilection for additional partial stops at the climax of a series or different rules to possession.

AP-style copyeditors are serial killers



No single use of a punctuation mark has caused more bloodshed and strife than the serial comma, which, the British insist, often bearing arms, is actually called the Oxford comma. Meanwhile, Chicago-style copyeditors say serial commas are essential. AP-style copyeditors say "They are not!" "They are too!" insist the CMOS folk, and so on until it gets loud and the police are called in.

Copyediting is basic, but proofreading is holey



The copyeditor's nightmare is streaming public video being printed or posted as steaming pubic video, which is especially common in sans serif fonts like helvetica, so an eagle eye, strong coffee, and reading glasses are considered holy tools that arm us in the eternal struggle against evol.