Category: Edit This

Editor’s Note: This is the first quiz in the Edit This! series, which is intended to help technical editing practitioners improve their editing skills by editing a challenging piece of text, and then seeing how they did.
We will be posting more of these quizzes throughout 2024-2025.

Try your hand (red pen?) on this edition of the New York Times’s Copy Edit This! quiz, written by Philip B. Corbett. Corbett is the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/11/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz.html

As the official publication of the STC Technical Editing SIG, Corrigo is full of useful information for technical editing practitioners.

But one of the best ways to improve our editing skills is to actually edit a challenging piece of text, and then see how we did. Having our own work checked can be both beneficial and eye-opening.

Throughout 2024-2025, Corrigo will be running a monthly feature called Edit This!, in which we will post a link to the New York Times’s Copy Edit This! quiz, written by Philip B. Corbett. Corbett is the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times, and oversees The Times’s style manual and handles questions about the language used in The Times.

To make it easier for you to find these quizzes again in the future, they will be tagged with an Edit This tag, and the titles prefaced with the same phrase.