Editing for Nonprofits & Authors

You need an editor. Why? Professional editing is about consistency and clarity.

Here’s how E Before I can help you:

Assemble writing from your team to create a report from the organization as a whole.
Reduce wordiness.
Break away from clichés and microaggressions based on sex, race, size, ability, sexual orientation, health status, and gender expression.
Take the worry out of punctuation, capitalization, and typos so that readers focus on your message.
Catch inconsistencies in hyphenation.
Verify facts such as how organization and notable people’s names are spelled.
Identify passages that aren't quite resonating.
Connect with the audience.
Format your documents.

My edits address relics of the patriarchy, rewriting phrases that tacitly assume male point of view or imply women are second. It’s an approach that applies not only to word choice but to whole documents. Inclusive language is standard in copyediting—even singular “they.”

My college English professor said “Grammar is sexist. We have to live with it.” I’ve been challenging patriarchal assumptions ever since.

E Before I Statement on the Use of Artificial Intelligence

All material written or edited with AI needs to be checked by a human.
In my limited experience, AI-written material requires more editing than human-generated material.
I do not use AI in my editing. I use tools that have been around for decades, such as macros (code added to Microsoft Word) to expedite certain editing tasks.
I have used AI to generate text I then edited as a sample to post on this website indicating how I work.
I won’t automatically turn away an author who has used AI for parts of manuscript development, but reread point #2.