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Learnings from LinkedIn: Optimize for Success

October 27, 2020 | Filed under: Suzanne Bowness

As I write this, I’m in the midst of marking 80 LinkedIn profiles. You read that right: in both of my online writing courses this term, I’ve assigned LinkedIn profiles as task number one. That’s how important I think they are to students embarking on a new career path. Part …

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More Online Diversity-Focused Writers’ Events to Attend This Fall

October 20, 2020 | Filed under: Sangeeta Mehta

Over the summer, when many writers’ events were cancelled due to the pandemic, I was heartened to learn that a few created for writers from marginalized backgrounds continued as planned, but online. Here is the brief list I had compiled of events to attend over the summer and fall. I …

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The Times They Are A-Changin’

October 13, 2020 | Filed under: Marianne Grier

My parents recently sold our family home. Perched on a hill in a small Nova Scotia town, the house was the backdrop to my childhood and school years. While I hadn’t lived there for ages, it was the place I always went back to. I could navigate my way in …

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Learning from History

October 6, 2020 | Filed under: Aaron Dalton

This post is part of a series of case studies by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on the personal experiences and various roles of in-house editors. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the Member Services Committee. One of the reasons our …

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The New Networking Reality for Students

September 29, 2020 | Filed under: Jasmine Peteran

For students trying to establish themselves as freelance editors, networking is key to success. Now that the fall semester has started, students are dreading the anticipated lack of opportunities with this new post-secondary experience. Networking is central to nearly every professional field, but especially true for those of us who …

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Listen Up! The Opportunity in Audio

September 22, 2020 | Filed under: Louise Harnby

Audio content has never been more popular. Publishers recognize this; so do independent authors. Here’s a list of tips and tools for freelance editors who’d like to introduce audio content into their business workflow and amplify their editorial voices — literally! 5 advantages of audio Audio takes up less bandwidth …

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Editing Young Writers

September 15, 2020 | Filed under: Ilana Reimer

Sometime before I turned 10, my parents “published” my first story at Staples. When I held this spiral-bound, laminated book with my own words and illustrations inside, I felt like an author. Looking back on my progress as a writer, I see my journey dotted with people who believed in …

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Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

September 8, 2020 | Filed under: Erin Brenner

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Erin Brenner is an author and an award-winning copywriter who has been running her own business, Right Touch Editing, for more than a decade. Her company specializes in business publishing and indie …

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Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

September 1, 2020 | Filed under: Anita Jenkins

Many thousands of office employees who were forced to work from home because of COVID-19 will continue to do so. Only 36 per cent of Canadians anticipate returning to their “place of work” when the pandemic subsides, according to an Angus Reid study. Freelance editors have been working from home …

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Grammar Matters

August 25, 2020 | Filed under: Gael Spivak

Antecedents and gerunds. En dashes and ellipses. Gripping topics for editors, right? Well, it turns out they’re not gripping for all of us. As one of the admins for the Editors’ Association of Earth groups on Facebook, I read almost every post and comment (one group alone had 310 posts …

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