Editing Samples
Article for Mormon Insights: "Blessings from Fast Offerings"
This article, "Blessings from Fast Offerings," was written for the Mormon Insights blog with the purpose of summarizing a message from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and directing the reader to the original message. Because these are short articles, much of my edits were focused on helping the author to write clearly and concisely. I also found another relevant article for the author to include in the "More Insights" section of her article. I worked with the author in person and remotely to make the improvements necessary to refine the article for submission to the Mormon Insights website.
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My Message for Mormon Insights: "Without Perfect Love"
This article, entitled "Without Perfect Love" was written for the Mormon Insights blog in their My Message section, which is geared toward sharing personal spiritual experiences with fellow Millennial readers. As an editor, I paid special attention to maintaining a tone that was appropriate for the Millennial audience that the Mormon Insights blog targets. Additionally, I made suggestions to the author to tie her theme (the desire for acceptance) into the piece earlier through the comments. In working with the author personally, we were able to prepare her article to be submitted for publication on the Mormon Insights blog.
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My Message for Mormon Insights: "My Struggle with Scripture Study"
This article, written by one of my peers, was also created for the Mormon Insights blog in their My Message section. My job as editor was to make substantive and copy edits as necessary, as well as to help the author choose a title. In the end, the author took my suggestion and chose "My Struggle with Scripture Study" as her final title. All edits were made with the purpose of polishing the article to be read by the managing editor of the Mormon Insights website. Because the author presented a well-written article, most edits I made were to improve coherency and flow at a sentence level.
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