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James Harbeck

“Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”

August 30, 2022 by James Harbeck | 2 Comments on “Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain”

What’s missing from this sample text? A set of subjects, n = 180, were surveyed using a predetermined questionnaire. Statistical analysis of the responses revealed a statistically significant pattern of association of low-frequency polysyllabic lexemes with greater intellectual value. It’s not short on words, nor on syllables per word, nor on grammatical complexity. It’s an […]

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Lucy Payette

Letter From the Editor: Why You Might Want to Consider Contributing to The Editors’ Weekly

August 23, 2022 by Lucy Payette | 10 Comments on Letter From the Editor: Why You Might Want to Consider Contributing to The Editors’ Weekly

Dear readers, These past two-plus years, I’ve kept good company with authors, publishing leaders, instructors and professors, new and established freelancers, linguistics experts, translators, in-house and niche editors and many more, and most of it during a pandemic. At a time when many were feeling disconnected, I was having weekly conversations with talented contributors and […]

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Mary Rykov

Reflections on Mentorship

August 16, 2022 by Mary Rykov | 4 Comments on Reflections on Mentorship

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. — Lao Tzu The mentor role is ancient and storied. Mentor, in Homer’s Odyssey, is the friend of Odysseus who tutors Telemachus, Odysseus’s son. Athena, disguised as Mentor, steers young Telemachus’s search for his father. Those ancient Greeks did spin good yarns. Here I explore the […]

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General EAC Lucy Payette

Letter From the Editor

July 12, 2022 by Lucy Payette | Leave a Comment

Dear readers, We are on a summer break at The Editors’ Weekly and plan to return to publishing in August. In the meantime, please let us know if there are topics you’d like to see featured or if you would like to contribute. If you have an idea for a blog post or have any questions, […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Long Live Long-time Freelancing

July 5, 2022 by Suzanne Bowness | 7 Comments on Long Live Long-time Freelancing

My name is Sue, and I’m a long-time, full-time freelancer. While most of the time I’m in the trees of my business, once in a while I zoom out to the forest and think about how different my way of working has been from that of other people. For 20 years, I’ve been the only […]

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Letitia Henville

Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

June 28, 2022 by Letitia Henville | 3 Comments on Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

For this year’s Claudette Upton Scholarship, my fellow judges — Lenore Hietkamp and David Johansen — and I selected as our question for nominees’ reflection, “How might kindness be part of the editor’s career?” We chose this question for a number of reasons: our own current thinking about our business practices, the difficulty in coming […]

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Lynne Williams

Safety and Respect: A Look at Editors Canada’s Workplace Harassment Policy

June 21, 2022 by Lynne Williams | Leave a Comment

In March, the Canadian Labour Congress released findings from a national survey on workplace harassment. It was the first of its kind in Canada and revealed that 7 in 10 workers have experienced some form of harassment at work. The study’s researchers also found an increase in online harassment since the start of the pandemic, […]

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Laura Bontje

On Editing an Editor: Margaret Kingsbury and Laura Bontje in Conversation

June 14, 2022 by Laura Bontje | 2 Comments on On Editing an Editor: Margaret Kingsbury and Laura Bontje in Conversation

Editing a first-time author calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the author is also an editor? As part of a series of blog posts featuring conversations between author-editors and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working together as critique partners. Laura […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Practical Ways to Help Ukraine from Canada

June 7, 2022 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | 1 Comment on Practical Ways to Help Ukraine from Canada

Tanya Mykhaylychenko, a regular contributor to The Editors’ Weekly, grew up in Ukraine and witnessed the first weeks of the war in February and March. In this post, she shares her experience and recommends resources that can help people learn more about Ukrainian culture, the latest news and ways to donate. Many of you may […]

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Berna Ozunal

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 3

May 31, 2022 by Berna Ozunal | Leave a Comment

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is the final post in a three-part series about my thoughts and experiences as they pertain to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) and my ongoing work with the Editors Canada standards committee. In Part 2, I asked how PES might help us prepare for the […]

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