Describe your editing process
You need to show the interviewer that you're a professional who understands and controls the editing process--lay out your approach or philosophy for editing in a sequential manner. Assure the interviewer that you understand that editing is a process that involves several steps and that the purpose of editing is to ensure that the writer's ideas are presented to the reader as clearly as possible.
"Over time, I've developed an efficient editing process that has allowed me to regularly meet the goals of the project. I usually work at the macro-level or 'big picture' edit approach. I look at the overall structure of the written material, the narrative arc, the main idea, the overall message, and the intended audience. Once those higher-level issues are resolved, I move to copyediting (paragraph and sentence level editing) and proofreading (grammar, spelling, and punctuation)."
