The claim
What the chapter promised, in a sentence a skeptic can test.
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Nonfiction editing tests the claim, the evidence under it, and the order of the chapters. A smooth chapter that does not prove its point is not finished. It is a talk.
What the chapter promised, in a sentence a skeptic can test.
A case, a number, or a scene that actually bears the weight.
Whether chapter four needs chapter three, or only follows it.
Where you explain what they already granted, and skip what they will not.
The brief
Nonfiction goes wrong in a particular way. The voice is confident. The chapters are long. The claim is repeated instead of tested. We ask what a careful, unfriendly reader would underline, and whether the page can answer them. Advice with no scene under it, and a story with no point it was brought in to make, both get marked.
We do not invent sources. If a number needs a citation, we query it. If a chapter is in the wrong place because the reader does not yet have the term it depends on, we say where it should move. The argument is the job. The pep talk is not.
How the edit runs
What the book claims a reader will be able to do or know by the end.
Each chapter’s job, and whether the pages do that job.
Stories that illustrate, and stories that prove. They are not the same.
A sequence a new reader can follow without your voice in the room.
Clarity, after the argument is the one you mean.
Before you send the manuscript
Memoir has its own edit. If the book is an argument that uses your life as evidence, this is the right desk. If the life is the subject, say so and we will treat it as memoir.
We will tell you where the claim is bare. Gathering the study, the interview, or the number is a different assignment. We do not drop in a citation to make a weak point look sourced.
Yes. A useful book is not a thin book. The test is whether a reader can do the thing, or check the claim, on a real day. Slogans fail that test.
You do. The notes and the edited file remain yours.
When you are ready
And the chapter where you suspect you are repeating it. We can tell you if that suspicion is right. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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