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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 …

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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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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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The Lucky Ones

August 26, 2014 | Filed under: Peter Midgley

How often have I heard the comment that editors are failed writers — or, in the scholarly environment in which I work, failed academics. Even when said in jest, the underlying suggestion is that one way of interacting with words and ideas — the editor’s — is somehow inferior. Such …

Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting.

DISPATCHES 7: Finding Work in Unexpected Places

October 2, 2013 | Filed under: Kate Icely

Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting. When I first started taking courses at Ryerson University, I didn’t have a clue about the variety of jobs available to me. I knew I could be an editorial assistant at a publishing …

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