Editor

Editors are writing professionals who take existing documents and provide critiques and corrections in order to help them meet professional standards and guidelines, and to improve the documents to their fullest potential. In business, there are generally three kinds of editors, copy editors, assistant editors, and executive editors. In the workplace, copy editors often work directly with authors and proofread their documents, making grammatical, contextual, thematic, and overall changes to their documents. Executive editors have the final say in documents as far as what stories are covered and how they're written. Assistant editors generally choose which writers will cover which topics and what other tasks and assignments they're given. Editors have a variety of occupational opportunities. They can work for magazines, newspapers, periodicals, journals, internet ezines, for publishing houses, or be hired by an individual to edit and critique manuscripts or personal documents or to give advice and assistance in the writing of a document.