What We Are Reading Today: ‘Make Your Manuscript Work’ by Laura Portwood-Stacer

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Updated 10 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Make Your Manuscript Work’ by Laura Portwood-Stacer

Developmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well.

“Make Your Manuscript Work” offers a practical method for assessing and refining the features of their texts that matter most—argument, evidence, structure, and style.

This guide shows scholarly writers how to identify what’s been holding their writing back and fix it so they can accomplish their publication goals.