“Are you a freelancer?” My answer to that question has changed over the course of my career. When I first started editing, I edited learning modules for apprenticeship trades in house at a polytechnic institution. I also wrote freelance projects for newspapers and magazines during evenings and weekends. I loved …
As editors and writers, we are all conscious of the need to consider our target audience. See Understanding My Reading Communities as …
I’ve spent most of my career in-house. Currently I work with dozens of individual authors from all across the organization on a …
Editors’ Association of Earth (EAE) is a Facebook group set up in February 2013 by Greg Ioannou and others, with the aim …
This post is part of a series of case studies by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on the …
A recent move left my husband and me needing new furniture. Armed with an Ikea gift card, we chose some pieces online. …
Throughout my career, I’ve been influenced by many mentors. When I was first hired right out of graduate school, Meredith, the experienced …
The second and possibly last edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary was published in 2004. Why hasn’t the Oxford University Press published a new edition in 15 years? There isn’t an up-to-date Canadian dictionary in print.
Have you ever wondered what types of insurance you should have as a freelancer? Besides basic insurances like life, health and auto, …
There are times when you want to make your prose more lively — if not flagrantly flippant then at least glancingly gleeful. James Harbeck discusses how to do that.