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Mentorship: Where the Learners Teach and the Teachers Learn

October 24, 2017 | Filed under: Anita Jenkins

Having a mentor is often invaluable for workers in their early to middle careers. Courses, study groups, guest speakers and conferences all help them learn their trade. But one-on-one interaction with a wise and supportive mentor is an incredibly important component of the learning curve. Let’s not forget, though, how …

Succeeding as a Freelancer

March 14, 2017 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

The key to a successful freelance business is a steady supply of projects. First, decide how many hours a week you’d like to work — 20, 40 billable hours? — and then set out to achieve your goal. Your professional life and income will become almost predictable. Here are some …

Keeping Up With the (Editorial) Times

November 22, 2016 | Filed under: Frances Peck

As editors, we can never stop learning. Whether it’s to resolve specific questions, maintain a credential or generally stay on top of our field, we have to keep up with a dizzying array of books, articles, blogs, newsletters, interviews, Twitter chats, Facebook posts, webinars — and the list goes on. …

Shorten It!

August 23, 2016 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

“Every word is gold,” my author said, “but I suppose you’ll have to shorten it.” Indeed I will: this book manuscript totals 180,000 words, and the trade publisher wants a 40 percent cut. That will be tough. Editors often need to reduce text. Newspapers, magazines, brochures, textbooks and reference materials …

Zoom, Zoom: Rev Up Your Editing

June 21, 2016 | Filed under: Paul Cipywnyk

How quickly can you edit and still do a good job? In another life I was an editor for a financial and business news service, and I was amazed at how quickly reporters and editors could churn out thousands of words, yet maintain high standards. I believe you can learn …

Mentoring

June 7, 2016 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

What’s the best way to pass skills, experience and business smarts from one person to another? Mentoring tops the list. We humans have always known the value of one-on-one instruction: parents teach their trade or profession to their children, apprentices work for years with their masters and young hires look …

Un programme d’agrément en français : utile? | Why Do We Need French Certification?

May 19, 2015 | Filed under: Sandra Gravel

Dans quelques semaines, le Programme d’agrément en révision linguistique – Réviseurs Canada fera son entrée dans le domaine des services langagiers francophones.  Pour le réviseur d’expérience ou pour celui ayant récemment joint le métier de la révision, le sentiment de compétence n’est pas nécessairement chose acquise, et le doute, la …

Eyeglasses on a book

Myth: Editors Read With Their Eyes

April 7, 2015 | Filed under: Virginia Durksen

If there’s a cliché image for our profession, it’s eyeglasses. Editors and librarians, it seems, should always have a pair handy, preferably hanging from a chain around the neck. We earn this image, as we earn our reputation, when we limit editing to what the eye sees. Editing is not …

Stack of books

Editors and Their Clients

January 13, 2015 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

Editors are shaped by their clients. Sure, we all share common knowledge, skills and talents, but we’re influenced by what our employers want from us. Over a period of years, that accumulated experience makes us the editors we are today. In recent posts to this site, Lori Burwash has described …

Woman in Borneo jungle

Four Guidelines for Editing Your Way Through the Corporate Jungle

November 25, 2014 | Filed under: Sue Archer

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be an editor. Unlike many of my editing colleagues who work in publishing, I ply my trade within a corporation. Although my official title is not “editor,” editing is a large part of what I do. I’ve worked for …

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