The essense of editing–or why you need a good editor

Sue Collier | July 27, 2009

Your manuscript is finally written. You breathe a great sigh of relief. But hold on; you aren’t done yet. Use your spell-checker, grammar, and style checking program to catch obvious flaws and flag overly long sentences, for example.
You also may have learned to type on a typewriter and thus put two spaces at the end [...]