I Would Edit It. A Step-by-Step Guide to Text Editing

This is a universal guide to text editing. It is not about "zi-shi", but about the mistakes that people without philological education usually make. It is as essential as air for copywriters, journalists, SMM specialists, bloggers, and writers. For everyone who writes a lot and wants their texts to be strong and correct. • How to write clearly, convincingly, and without clichés. • How to make the text clear and logical without sacrificing meaning. • How and where to check the correctness of what is written. • How to facilitate the perception of the text through formatting. Igor Gorshchev answers these and other questions. He thoroughly dissects the editorial process of working with material, from checking logic to eliminating stylistic errors. With his book, beginner authors and editors will build the correct algorithm for working with text, while experienced ones will close possible gaps. Igor Gorshchev is an editor, author of the courses "Stylistics of the Russian Language" and "Logical Text Analysis", which have been attended by over 11 thousand people. He is the founder of the project "What to Read for Editors", where since 2016 he has been sharing the best content on writing and editing texts with readers.