Editing takes a deeper look at how information and ideas are presented. While editing includes all steps involved in proofreading, the focus is on making changes that make an article easier to understand, better organized, and more suitable for the audience. Specifically, in Editing, we pay attention to polishing and tightening the prose, fixing punctuation, and taking off clichés, repetition, and redundancy.
The terms ‘proofreading’ and ‘editing’ are sometimes used interchangeably, but in fact there are important differences between the two.