THE EDITORS' WEEKLY

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Lana Okerlund

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 […]

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Kate Icely

Dispatches 3: An Intern’s Survival Guide

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

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. 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 […]

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Dominique Fortier

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?

Pour faire de la révision de textes, il faut aimer profondément la langue et les mots, sans préjugé, sous toutes leurs formes (ancienne, nouvelle, administrative, scientifique, poétique), d’où qu’ils viennent (famille, village, région, pays, partout dans le monde) et où qu’ils circulent (écoles, librairies, musées, Web, entreprises, etc.). Ils nous font découvrir les univers qu’ils […]

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Victoria Neufeldt

Old Words

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

“New Words, Old Words, Shy Words, Bold Words” is a four-part series about English words and their origins. 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 […]

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Karen Virag

Gettable Grammar: Learning to Like “Like”

April 9, 2013 by Karen Virag | 2 Comments on Gettable Grammar: Learning to Like “Like”

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. 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 […]

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Kate Icely

Dispatches 2: What’s in an Internship?

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

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. 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. […]

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Frances Peck

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 Editors Canada. We are […]

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Iva Cheung

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 […]

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Karen Virag

Gettable Grammar: Things That Dangle

March 12, 2013 by Karen Virag | 1 Comment on Gettable Grammar: Things That Dangle

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. 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 […]

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Kate Icely

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern

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

Dispatches from an Editorial Intern is the first in a series of posts from a neophyte editor in the publishing trenches. 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 […]

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