Test Yourself: Looking Back on 2024

Pop quiz! How well do you remember the tips you’ve learned in 2024? I’ve pulled some questions from a selection of this year’s posts about editing tools, Editors Canada and editorial niches.

If you need a refresher, you can help each other out in the comments or find the answer in the original post (each is linked after the corresponding question). How did you do? Did anything surprise you?

Part 1: Editing Tools

1. How many years has it been since the publication of The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition? (“A New Canadian Dictionary”) 

2. Which feature in Microsoft Word allows you to minimize eye strain by adjusting the color scheme of the document? (“Editing with Vision Loss: Accessibility Tips”)

3. Whose website offers thousands of macros to help streamline the editing process? (“Free (or Cheap) Tools for Freelance Editors: Part 2”)

Part 2: Editors Canada

4. Earlier this year, Editors Canada released the updated PES, “a framework of principles and practices” for editors. What does PES stand for? (“Crystal Clear: PES Unscramble the Publishing Puzzle”)

5. The Academic Editing special interest group — also called the AE Chapter — is run jointly by Editors Canada and which other editorial association? (“Volunteer for the Academic Editing Chapter”)

6. Which of Editors Canada’s social media channels invites members to host the page for a month? (“What I Learned from Running Editors Canada’s [Social Media] Page”)

Part 3: Editorial Niches

7. How do you punctuate a mid-sentence break in a comic book? (“An Introduction to Proofreading Comics”)

8. Which 2023 book offers proofreading tips and practical exercises to support editors, “students, admin assistants and people who get called upon to do proofreading”? (“[Title]: An Interview with Leslie Vermeer”)

9. In which subgenre of horror would you expect a manuscript to include “monologues, descents into madness and minimal description of the entity”? (“Tips for Editors New to Horror”)

Wrapping Up

I’d like to extend my thanks to all the contributors who make The Editors’ Weekly what it is! And a very special thank-you to Ruth Pentinga, Emily Lam, Mina Holië and Kay Pettigrew for their hard work behind the scenes of the blog this year.

This will be the penultimate post for The Editors’ Weekly in 2024. We’ll be taking a holiday break until January 9 to give our contributors and editorial team a chance to focus on all the things that keep us busy in work and life at this time of year. But there’s one final post coming up: stay tuned for a special multi-blog collaboration on December 19!

And if there’s something you’d like to see on the blog in the new year, please send me a message! I look forward to hearing your ideas.

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