Aaron Vansintjan is both a junior researcher and a seasoned editor and has been on both sides of feedback. In this post he shares with us his understanding of the editing process, and what it takes to give good feedback...

The title is the first thing you write. It is the moment you decide what is the purpose, focus and message of your article.

When would you need to edit out large parts of your paper? Well, when your text is too long! When I was a PhD student I had a paper that was 15,000 words. I presented it at conference after conference. It lingered on my desk for months...

You have finished your paper, made all the changes that you needed to do and polished your arguments. Now you need to look at it one last time, focussing on grammar, syntax and typos. How do you do this?...