Planet Editing Blog

Creating a Profile on Planet Editing

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 03:49:39 +0000

First of all, thank you for joining Planet Editing. English editing and translation have become very competitive on the web, but the number of service buyers is growing and will continue to grow as inter-generational change occurs inside companies, and university departments. Still, it is important for all of us to present our best possible image. This can only be achieved through service quality, reliability, and great first impressions.

Your profile on Planet Editing has been designed to create that great first impression. That is why I’d like to encourage you to complete your profile including: an image, contact details, skills areas, samples (or previous assistance), resume, and ‘about me’ sections wholly. Buyers want to know. I guess some of us might be shy about putting our image on the net, but an appropriate avatar is equally great plus an image is a requirement for Featured Editor rotation on the front page.

Anyway, good luck with finding work online and here at Planet Editing.

Make Money While You Travel

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:27:48 +0000

Can you imagine sitting on a beach on Ko Samui earning a steady on-line income from your English writing and editing skills?

Well, Planet Editing offers you just such an opportunity. By creating an editor or translator’s profile on Planet Editing, you can have access to English editing or translation work from all over the world, build yourself a group of clients to whom you can offer your writing, proofreading, editing, and/or translation skills and earn a very good income while you see the world.

Planet Editing is focused on quality so it’s not a place for flakes but if you have the presence of mind to be able to travel and still remain professional in all your dealings then this is the perfect place for you.

Planet Editing Testing

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:13:15 +0000

Thanks to all those who participated in the testing of our new connectivity software for English editors, translators and writers.

The new system seemed to work very well for all the participants with a few minor quirks that we’ll be looking into. I really appreciate everybody’s assistance and I hope you all get a lot out of Planet Editing in the future.

Planet Editing: The English Editing Marketplace

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 06:00:08 +0000

Taiwan

English Editing Marketplace

In the next few months, Planet Editing will be making changes to our service model.

Soon Planet Editing will be launching new features on the site that allow English editors from all over the world to connect with academics and business people in Asia.

This site will provide an online marketplace for English editing and translation services.

How it works

Buyers of English editing and translation services can create a profile of themselves and their company or institute on Planet Editing and editors and translators can do the same. They can then use Planet Editing’s unique system to offer editing work for tender among qualified professional and casual editors.

Who should join?

If you are an editor, this will provide a great opportunity for you to expand your editing business.

If you are a writer, publisher, or journal then you worries about finding a suitably qualified editor or translator at competitive prices will be over.

Editing for Grammar Errors

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:22:20 +0000

Common Grammar Errors

Editing and proofreading

11 most common grammatical errors: Editing and proofreading your English requires an understanding of the common grammatical errors. The following is a reference list of the 11 most common grammatical errors.

These are the things to look for to help you proofread your own work:

The list

Read the list and try to find the errors. Send them to Planet Editing and we’ll check your corrections.

Structures	Error Example
Sentence Structure	I need to discuss with Tom, he has all the data.
Agreement	Each of the defects have been corrected.
Verbs	They have focused on this issue in the last meeting.
Passive Voice	The details outlined in the attachment.
Gerunds	They are considering to acquire another company.
Prepositions	Here is an answer for your question.
Nouns	We don’t have these information available.
Articles	Design team needs to make final decision on this.
Noun Clauses	He wants to know what are they referring to.
Adjective Clauses	The researchers works with Dr. Lin analyzed the data.
Parallel Structures	We need to increase productivity and being flexible.

Quick Reference: Technical Writing Guide III

admin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:15:09 +0000

Technical Writing Guide (Presentation)

Presentation

In this series of posts designed to assist our clients with their English editing and proofreading, we have been presenting a quick reference guide to technical writing. Thus far we have looked at two of the three essential components of technical writing—analysis and organization. In this post we examine presentation methods for each of the information types.

Principle

(What should or shouldn’t be done)

Use: text or a symbol

Procedures

(How to do it)

Use:

· Text

· Bulleted or numbered lists

· Procedure step/action tables

· Decision if/then tables

· Flow charts

Process

(How it works)

Use:

· Text

· Process stage/description tables

· Flow charts

· Cause effects when/then tables

· Cycle charts

· Process charts in block diagrams

Structure

(What it looks like)

Use:

· Text

· Diagrams

· Parts tables for part/function or part/description

Concept

(What it is)

Use:

· Definition

· Example

· Non-example

· Analogy

Fact

(Specifics and detail)

Use:

· Text

· List

· Table

· Chart

· Graphs

All with corresponding content descriptions.

Quick Reference: Technical Writing Guide II

admin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 02:24:02 +0000

Technical Writing Guide (Organization)

Organization

In the last post, to assist you with your English editing and proofreading, we provided the first component of successful technical writing i.e., a description of how to analyze writing by information types. This post looks at the principles of organization:

· Grouping information

· Relevance

· Labeling

· Consistency

· Graphics

· Accessible detail, and

· Hierarchy of groups and labels.

Grouping

Group information into small manageable units.

Relevance

Determine what items are “like” and exclude those which are unrelated from each information group.

Labeling

Label each unit of information according to either its content, purpose or function.

Consistency

Use consistent words, labels, formats, organizations, and sequences when presenting similar subject matter to your audience.

Graphics

Use graphics as an integral part of your presentation.

Accessible detail

Communicate a level of detail that makes relevant information immediately accessible and usable for multiple readers.

Hierarchy of groups and labels

Organize information into a hierarchy of relevant units from smallest to largest, and then label the larger groups.

Quick Reference: Technical Writing Guide

admin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:21:21 +0000

Technical Writing Guide

3 steps to a great final product

To help with your English editing and proofreading, we have put together this easy to follow technical writing guide.

Technical writing, in fact, all writing requires following three basic components: analysis, organization and presentation.

In this brief guide, we’ll look at how to approach each of these components.

Analysis

In general business communications and technical writing can be broken down into the following types of information M.D. Merrill (1997).

1. Principles

2. Procedures

3. Processes

4. Structures

5. Concepts

6. Facts

Information Types

The table below describes information types and gives an example to help you recognize them.

Information Type	Clues	Ex: Air travel
Principle	· Rules · Guidelines · Laws · Policies	No smoking in the bathroom of the plane.
Procedure	· How to do it · How to make a decision	How to purchase a ticket
Process	· What happens · How it works	How a life-vest works
Structure	· What it looks like · What its part are	Map of Taipei City
Concept	· What it is · Why it is what it is · Definitions	What is aerodynamics?
Fact	· Specifications · Chronologies · Dates, times · Purpose	This is an Airbus A330.

Website Launch

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:42 +0000

News will appear here shortly.