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Should Editors Be Able to Write?

April 28, 2015 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

We editors talk at length about different kinds of editing and who does what, and we generally assume that we’re working on a text written by someone else. Together with the author, we massage the content, the structure and the presentation into the best possible shape for its intended readers. …

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Twelve-Step Editing

November 4, 2014 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

One project, one editor — that’s the norm in Canada today. Only a few large trade publishers and a small number of government departments still divide editing between structural/stylistic editors and copy editors, while the rapidly dwindling group of educational publishers distinguish between developmental editing and copy editing. Almost all …

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What Should an Editor Be?

January 7, 2014 | Filed under: Rosemary Shipton

We were nearing the end of a Stylistic Editing seminar — a group of about 30 people of varying ages and experience working in-house or freelance for book publishers, magazines, businesses or governments. A woman in the third row raised her hand: “In my work I’m the only editor,” she …

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