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There has been some debate in our office as to what services should be covered under the category of "editing", and what our clients should expect if they need editing as opposed to proofreading. In fact, there are generally three levels of editing work, only one of which is what's commonly called proofreading. In reading Lillie Ammann's series on self-editing, I came across a short and concise list summarising the different kinds of editing functions that I think are applica

One of my favourite interviews with any Vietnamese celebrity ever has to be the 90 minutes I spent at Ru Nam café having coffee with actress Kathy Uyen. At the time, we at Metro Writers were exploring our first biography projects, and I was interested in learning more about Kathy personally so that I could portray her human side in contrast to the characters she portrays on screen. What is most memorable about our conversation was the fact that much of it centered around her