The Plain Language Ideal

This week, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) released their plain-language standard for written communication. This marks the first internationally accepted statement of what clear communication means. The movement towards […]

Announcing ClarityGPT: Fully Automated Full-Stack Academic Editing and Coaching

We’re thrilled and proud to announce that today we are launching ClarityGPT (cGPT), a large language model that automates what we do as editors and academic coaches at all levels. […]

Attention, Writing, and Editing

Following from last week’s post on deep work, we’ve been thinking a bit more about attention. Skill in writing is, among other things, skill with subtleties of attention. So let’s […]

From the PhD to Professional Editing

Here at Clarity Doctors we turned to professional editing after finishing our PhDs. The transition from academia to editing is somewhat unusual, so we thought we’d share some of our […]

Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Editing

Some thoughts about artificial intelligence and the near-future of the editing profession.

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Editing and (a Bit of) Philosophy: Meaning and Form

Briefly exploring the intersection of philosophy and editing.

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Editing and the Style Guide: Between Flexibility and Consistency

Language is a beautiful, diverse, and evolving thing. This is the fundamental attitude we bring to our editing work. Because of this, we aim to clarify our clients’ voices within […]

Self-Editing Strategies: Structural Editing, Content Editing, and Copyediting

Ah, editing. Nobody really likes editing their own writing. While writing can be occasionally gratifying, and the products of editing are certainly rewarding, the process of editing is at best […]

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