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DISPATCHES 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

May 28, 2013 by Kate Icely | 2 Comments on DISPATCHES 4: What’s an Intern Worth?

So now that you know what editorial interns do and you have some tips to get you started, I’m sure you’re wondering how the editorial staff really feels about interns. This question was burning in my mind when I started at Random House Canada. With so many interns coming in (up to eight a year in […]

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La langue de départ et la langue d’arrivée d’un texte en français et en anglais : comment ça marche

May 22, 2013 by Dominique Fortier | 1 Comment on La langue de départ et la langue d’arrivée d’un texte en français et en anglais : comment ça marche

À quel moment et de quelle manière la révision française se met-elle en branle dans le processus de publication d’un document bilingue? LANGUE DE DÉPART OU D’ORIGINE D’UN TEXTE Comme tous les textes provenant du gouvernement du Canada doivent être publiés dans les deux langues officielles, le français et l’anglais, il faut que le processus […]

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GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Whom—don’t leave us! We hardly knew ye!

May 14, 2013 by Karen Virag | 2 Comments on GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Whom—don’t leave us! We hardly knew ye!

In the April 2013 Atlantic magazine, writer Megan Garber gleefully wrote: “Whom, I am thrilled to inform you, is dying.” And though I agree that whom seems to be going the way of the floppy disk, I don’t share Garber’s glee. Perhaps it’s because I think that grammatical inflection (when words change form to reflect […]

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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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