THE EDITORS' WEEKLY

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: False Cognates, Syntax and Interferences — Oh My!

April 14, 2015 by Dwain Richardson | 4 Comments on English Editing in Quebec: False Cognates, Syntax and Interferences — Oh My!

Here are two French excerpts and their translations (emphases and bold prints are mine): Donner la vedette à la nature luxuriante jusqu’à ce point impose le respect. Plus encore, ce lieu intemporel inspire le recueillement propre au dénuement référant à l’art de l’aménagement extérieur japonais.… Récipiendaire du Prix X, le jury a particulièrement remarqué le […]

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Virginia Durksen

Myth: Editors Read With Their Eyes

April 7, 2015 by Virginia Durksen | 12 Comments on Myth: Editors Read With Their Eyes

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 just an eye thing. It’s […]

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Dominique Fortier

Anémique « académique »

March 31, 2015 by Dominique Fortier | Leave a Comment

Le sens de l’adjectif académique est passablement galvaudé au Québec. Le français lui attribue toutefois deux sens parfaitement corrects. Ce mot signifie d’abord « qui se rapporte à une académie, soit une division administrative dans le domaine de l’enseignement, un établissement où l’on enseigne les arts et le sport ou une société littéraire ou scientifique ». Ainsi, […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Time, Money and the Freelance Life

March 24, 2015 by Paul Cipywnyk | 5 Comments on Time, Money and the Freelance Life

For a creative professional or craftsperson, the business side of freelancing can be challenging. “I don’t want to run a business. I just want to write!” Or edit, or photograph, or paint or sing. Yet by selling your services or products, you are running a business. Why not run it well? So well that the […]

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Susan Glickman

In My Opinion

March 17, 2015 by Susan Glickman | 4 Comments on In My Opinion

There are a heck of a lot of opinions out there. Some days they come at you as thick as blackflies over Lac Ouareau on a July afternoon. Small, insistent opinions: some winging singly and some blackening the sky in noisy hordes. Some are meaningful and some mean well and some are just mean, but […]

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Roma Ilnyckyj

Editing Science: Mechanics and Beyond

March 10, 2015 by Roma Ilnyckyj | 2 Comments on Editing Science: Mechanics and Beyond

I work for a science communications company called Talk Science to Me. Our goal is to help scientists communicate their research effectively, and we offer writing, editing, design and project management services, among others. As an associate editor, I mostly copy edit and proofread research reports, articles, books and websites. Many of our clients are […]

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Sue Archer

Review: The Editor’s Companion by Steve Dunham

March 3, 2015 by Sue Archer | 10 Comments on Review: The Editor’s Companion by Steve Dunham

When I first read the title of this book, I thought it would be a comprehensive “how to” guide for people learning how to edit, like The Copyeditor’s Handbook by Amy Einsohn. The focus of this book is somewhat different. The Editor’s Companion is aimed at professionals who already know something about communications, but are […]

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Anna Williams

Editor’s Note: Thank You for Your Patience

March 1, 2015 by Anna Williams | Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, Thank you for your patience these last several weeks while our blog went through some technical issues. We are aware that our subscribers weren’t receiving their usual notices when new content was published. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. Things should be back to normal again, although we’re still ironing out […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: A Compulsion to Exaggerate

February 24, 2015 by Wilf Popoff | Leave a Comment

Frank McKenna, a San Diego photographer, complains that all photos displayed on the web are described as stunning. “What’s going on here?” he asks. “When did every picture become stunning?” McKenna sees this as word inflation. I agree to a point. Certainly it’s almost insulting nowadays to simply say something is delightful or charming; we […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Local Realities — Quebec City and Area, and Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

February 17, 2015 by Dwain Richardson | Leave a Comment

♪♫ À Québec au clair de lune. Comme il fait bon… ♪♫ On those first few words of Marius Delisle’s 1959 hit, I make my way to Quebec City and the surrounding area to find out how language professionals fare with English on a daily basis. Of the more than 700,000 inhabitants of the Quebec […]

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