How is this different from copy editing?
Copy editing works on sentences. Developmental editing works on the document: what order the sections go in, whether the argument holds, what is missing and what should go. It produces a report rather than a graded-up text.
This comes up on Developmental Editing, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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