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How to Prevent Tone Corrections Before the First Draft

How to Prevent Tone Corrections Before the First Draft

Tone corrections often look like a normal part of editing. An editor changes a confident sentence into a cautious one, removes promotional language from a paragraph, asks the writer to sound more conversational or rewrites an introduction because it does not feel like the brand. Each individual correction may seem small, but repeated across an article they can become a substantial second round of …

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