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In-house to Freelance and Back Again

October 20, 2022 | Filed under: Tanis McLeod

I started my professional editing career among a team of writers and editors for the Alberta provincial government. At the time, government was the largest employer of editing professionals. The role was fairly limited: we did everything in Canadian Press style, we never credited a source, and I spent most …

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