Sometimes the work of a copyeditor is not well understood. Skill in the mechanics of copyediting (finding typos and errors in spelling, grammar, usage and style) is a necessary requirement for good copyediting, but there is more to the profession. I finished reading an old book (2004), Strategic Copy Editing by John Russial. I had met the author at my annual copyediting conference. He was a newspaper editor for years, so I never thought to pick up his book as I thought it wou