This America | Editing

Editors Guide for This America

Publication guidelines for unified quality and standards

Editing guidelines

Our pub’s mission is to provide a place for op-eds on news, satire pulled from the headlines, and creative writing on current events in the USA and/or its impact around the world. Writers may publish only once per day. If they make multiple submissions on the same day, only one will be chosen and the rest will be declined and cleared from the queue.

All submissions must be in English and incorporate reliable, trackable sourcing of the topics/themes covered. Editors should check/track the sources to verify. Wikimedia should not be use as a primary source, but may be used in conjunction with trusted reporting.

For more detailed guidelines directed to the writers pool, please reference the pub style manual.

The avatar for the publication “This America” — created with Adobe Illustrator by D. Denise Dianaty

Sentence structure

Editors, we all have a penchant for complicated sentence structures; Indeed, I personally have an unruly penchant for overly complex sentences — like this one; see what I did there?

Often, these complexities render run-on sentences. Whenever possible — without changing content — break up run-on sentences and complex…