Sentences with phrase «who drafted the manuscript»

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The novel order, issued last month by a state judge in California, has alarmed some publishers, who fear it could deter scientists from agreeing to review draft manuscripts.

«The concept of «blue carbon» has focused scientists and stakeholders on the tremendous potential of managing marine ecosystems for climate mitigation,» said Patrick Megonigal, associate director for research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, who reviewed an early draft of the manuscript but was not directly involved in the work.

A book doctor is someone who performs developmental or content editing on your manuscript, usually after you have a completed draft.

Beta readers are volunteers who will read a finished draft of your manuscript and provide you feedback so you can make improvements before you move forward with editing.

At Author Secret, we offer two different kinds of content editing for authors who have already finished the first draft of their novels: the manuscript assessment and developmental editing.

The truth is this: although first drafts will be much better after they are professionally edited, nine out of ten (or ten out of ten) of those manuscripts will remain unpublishable if they have been «edited» in a vacuum by professionals who have never acquired a manuscript at a Big Five publishing house; never negotiated an author / agent book contract; and never published, marketed and sold a finished book.

Or you can send out your manuscript between drafts to a number of people you connect with as beta readers, who are willing to read your book and offer feedback at whatever level you might find useful — from catching typos, to telling you the character with the Southern accent just ain't cuttin» it.

There would be very few writers, I would argue, who could produce even a semblance of a rough draft manuscript of 30,000 or 40,000 words in a mere 40 hours.

So there comes to be writers who quick draft their manuscripts and complete the journey of word one to publication in 3 to 6 months.

The authors are indebted to several anonymous reviewers who provided insightful comments on draft versions of the manuscript.

I'm told (by a lawyer who'd have reason to know) that the first time my apportionment text was mentioned in the SCC — the text was still in draft (the parties had portions of the manuscript) so that'll give you an idea of when it was — one of the judges on the bench was less than impressed that they'd been referred to a still in progress work by a living author.

I help writers who have already written the sloppy first draft but now need feedback as they rewrite, revise, and polish the manuscript to the best of their ability.

We are grateful to the authors of the reviewed studies who provided us with additional information about those studies and to the anonymous reviewers who provided valuable feedback on an earlier draft of this manuscript.