THE EDITORS' WEEKLY

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What Do Editors Need To Know Now?

May 7, 2013 by Lana Okerlund | 2 Comments on What Do Editors Need To Know Now?

The volatile state of the publishing industry today—and, by extension, the editing profession—can sometimes feel pretty daunting. Digital disruptions to the book, magazine, and newspaper segments of the industry in particular are like an ongoing series of earthquake tremors beneath what previously felt like steady ground. Technological innovations have brought new forms of reading and […]

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DISPATCHES 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

May 1, 2013 by Kate Icely | 4 Comments on DISPATCHES 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

For all the good that comes out of an internship, sometimes being an intern can be tough. Interns are dropped into a completely new environment where everyone has more experience than they do. It’s important that they make a good impression, but, at the same time, interns’ skills are only just developing, and they have […]

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LA RÉVISION FRANÇAISE : Comment est-ce qu’on devient réviseure?

April 24, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | 6 Comments on LA RÉVISION FRANÇAISE : Comment est-ce qu’on devient réviseure?

<< Je suis arrivé à la chanson par l’écriture. >> ― Gilles Vigneault, Le Devoir On arrive souvent là où on est par un chemin détourné. Pour ma part, je suis venue à la révision par la coordination d’expositions. Cela semble un peu étrange, mais à bien y regarder, cela s’explique. On est des êtres […]

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Old Words

April 16, 2013 by Victoria Neufeldt | 1 Comment on Old Words

Old words are just as interesting as new words. But how old is old? We use a good number of words today that go all the way back to Old English, the language of the Germanic peoples who invaded and then settled in England in the fifth century A.D. These “native” words are some of […]

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GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Learning to like “like”

April 9, 2013 by Karen Virag | 2 Comments on GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Learning to like “like”

One often hears complaints about how some people litter their sentences with the word like—not as a noun, verb, preposition or conjunction, but as, like, an interjection. Like that. Now I know that Canadians like to blame Americans for all the world’s ills, but we can’t really lay this verbal tic at the feet of […]

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DISPATCHES 2: What’s in an Internship?

April 2, 2013 by Kate Icely | 5 Comments on DISPATCHES 2: What’s in an Internship?

When I enrolled at Ryerson in the fall of 2011, I took as many editing courses as I could. Copy editing, proofreading, grammar, substantive editing…. The more courses I took, the more I loved working with words. After years of university, here I was, finally surrounded by people who thought exactly as I did. People […]

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New Tax Guidelines for Self-Employed BC Editors

March 26, 2013 by Frances Peck | 3 Comments on New Tax Guidelines for Self-Employed BC Editors

On April 1, 2013, the BC government will repeal the HST and return to the former GST + PST regime. What does that mean for self-employed editors? We’ve dug into the matter and are happy to share what we’ve found. Please note that these are our personal comments, not those of EAC. We are not […]

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What does your markup say about you?

March 19, 2013 by Iva Cheung | 5 Comments on What does your markup say about you?

A friend of mine was venting to me about his old boss, who used to look over his reports. Whenever his boss found an error, he’d not only circle it but also emphasize his discovery with an exclamation point—a practice that drove my buddy nuts. Encoded within this tiny mark of punctuation was his micromanaging […]

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GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Things that dangle

March 12, 2013 by Karen Virag | 1 Comment on GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Things that dangle

Things that dangle in the night. And in the day. Hours before giving birth, a woman’s boyfriend leaves her for her best friend and quits the talent agency they run together to start his own competing business. Now that is one amazing—and appalling!—boyfriend. First he gives birth, then he betrays his girlfriend. Typical man. In […]

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DISPATCHES from an Editorial Intern

March 5, 2013 by Kate Icely | 10 Comments on DISPATCHES from an Editorial Intern

Outside Looking In I decided I wanted to go into publishing in early 2011. It was a good solution to my problems at the time. Problems like why I didn’t want to fill out arduous grad school applications and why I wouldn’t apply to law school (as members of my family fervently hoped I would). […]

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