Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

This blog post is about how to organize your arguments and develop a narrative arc in your cultural anthropology monograph. In academic writing, scholars make arguments and work with concepts and themes. Arguments and unique concepts form the "currency" of intellectual exchange, and so it's worth taking the time to reflect on and uncover what arguments lie in your ethnography and anthropological theorizing. It's common for arguments to be buried, not developed clearly enough,

A review of Scott Norton's book on developmental editing. Scott Norton's book is now a classic tome on many editors' bookcases. I first learned about developmental editing many years ago when setting up my editorial business, and this book spoke to me! I read chapters early each morning in bed. My background in fieldwork and anthropology made the case study approach come alive to me, and I quickly started applying this book in my practice and soon offered developmental editi