The Importance of Hiring a Good Editor When You Are Writing in a Second Language
Much has changed about the world in the last 50 years and particularly since the advent of the Internet. We are now truly international. Large corporations have been doing business in other countries for centuries, but ordinary individuals have only started regular international interactions in the last 20 or 25 years. We not only do business with people in other countries; we also form social relationships with them, and we migrate—frequently. I am currently living in a town in South Florida that is 40% Hispanic; almost all of that population has English as a second language. Many are writers. They write for work, and they write for fun, and they need to have good English skills for both.
If you are a first-time novelist, or are writing a nonfiction book in your second language, you have a very good chance of making mistakes that a native-born English speaker would not …
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