Writing & Editing

Clear writing rarely happens in the first draft. Here you’ll find practical guidance on editing, proofreading, structure, style, and revision — the skills that turn rough ideas into writing that is sharper, stronger, and easier to understand.

Writing & Editing

A landmark study found that Catholic nuns who wrote sparse, simple autobiographies in their early twenties, when they entered the convent in the 1930s, were far more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease roughly six decades later, with about 80 percent of the low-complexity writers eventually developing the disease compared to only 10 percent of those whose youthful essays were dense with ideas

A nun's youthful writing style in the 1930s predicted her risk of Alzheimer's six decades later—suggesting cognitive complexity in youth may shield the brain from decline.

By Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 19, 2026

Writing & Editing

Decades of research on expressive writing have found that writing honestly about a difficult experience for even a few minutes a day can improve mood and some physical health measures afterward — especially when people put feelings into words instead of just replaying the experience in their heads.

The difference between ruminating and healing may be as simple as writing down what you can't stop thinking about.

By Global English Editing Editorial Team · Sep 3, 2026

Writing & Editing

As AI-generated content floods search results and social feeds, a growing number of companies now exist just to certify that a human made the thing you're looking at

A $10 seal promising human authorship is just the start of a booming verification industry built on our collective distrust of machines.

By Global English Editing Editorial Team · Jul 31, 2026

Writing & Editing

Three of this year's biggest AI-authorship scandals have hit a literary prize, a publisher, and a newspaper — and together they keep exposing how blurry the line around 'authorship' has become

When literary judges can't tell machine-generated prose from human craft, the entire ecosystem of literary authority starts to crack.

By Global English Editing Editorial Team · Jul 23, 2026

Writing & Editing

The writers whose work reads as unmistakably human aren't the ones avoiding AI on principle — they're the ones who never stopped writing like themselves in the first place

Two manuscripts landed on my desk in the same week not long ago, both nonfiction, both from first-time authors who had never worked with an editor before.

By Brendan Brown · Jul 16, 2026

Writing & Editing

Why fluent writers and careful writers make different kinds of mistakes

The manuscripts that stay with me longest are not the worst ones. They are the ones written by people who clearly know how to write — where…

By Graeme Brown · Jul 12, 2026