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Goodbyes and Hellos: Changes to Our Editorial Team

July 4, 2024 by Laura Bontje | Leave a Comment

It’s been many years since I was in school, yet July still feels like a time of transition — a month where one grade has ended and a new one is on the horizon. So it seems fitting that we’re celebrating this year’s “graduating class” of Editors’ Weekly team members in July and welcoming our […]

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Volunteer Posting: French Blog Editor

May 30, 2024 by Laura Bontje | Leave a Comment

Calling all French-speaking editors! As you may know, The Editors’ Weekly has historically operated in English. Earlier this year, Editors Canada launched l’Hebdomadaire des réviseurs to share French-language content alongside the English posts here at The Editors’ Weekly. And now we need a managing editor for this new companion blog! If you’re interested in learning […]

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The Editors’ Weekly in Your Inbox

April 22, 2024 by Laura Bontje | 17 Comments on The Editors’ Weekly in Your Inbox

The Editors’ Weekly is available to browse online, but we know many of you enjoy having new posts sent directly to you! When we shifted to a new website this year, our blog subscriptions were inadvertently paused. We’ve corrected what we believe to be the cause behind the scenes, so if you’re an existing subscriber, […]

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What Do You Hope to Read in The Editors’ Weekly?

April 4, 2024 by Laura Bontje | Leave a Comment

The Editors’ Weekly wouldn’t be what it is without the wonderful contributors who volunteer their time to share their wisdom each week. It also wouldn’t be what it is without you, dear readers. We’ve got some great content coming up this month! As planning progresses for spring and summer 2024, we’ve got a question for […]

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New Websites for The Editors’ Weekly

February 1, 2024 by Laura Bontje | Leave a Comment

With the launch of Editors Canada’s new website comes a refreshed look for The Editors’ Weekly! Take some time to look around and explore! One of the biggest changes for the blog is the creation of a dedicated site for French content. While The Editors’ Weekly currently operates in English, we do get occasional posts […]

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Closing the Book on 2023

December 21, 2023 by Laura Bontje | 2 Comments on Closing the Book on 2023

Dear readers, The Editors’ Weekly will be taking a holiday break, with no posts on December 28 and January 4. We’ll be back in the new year with new posts about the academic editing special interest group, the Editors Canada national executive council, embracing neurodivergence as an editor, an exciting new project for language lovers […]

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Letter from the Editor: Write for The Editors’ Weekly

August 24, 2023 by Laura Bontje | 4 Comments on Letter from the Editor: Write for The Editors’ Weekly

Happy summer, readers! The Editors’ Weekly is taking a break for the rest of August. It’s time to enjoy the last weeks of summer — and of summer reading! Have you read any great books lately? This summer, I set myself a goal of reading only Canadian literature, and it’s been fantastic! (Need a good […]

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Easter Hiatus

April 6, 2023 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Happy Thursday, everyone! We are taking a short break for the long Easter weekend. We will be back next week with a new post, so stay tuned! We hope that those of you out east who experienced the ice storm on Wednesday are safe and sound. ___ The Editors’ Weekly is the official blog of […]

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Letter from the Editor: A Brief Hiatus

February 2, 2023 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Hello, dear readers of the Editors’ Weekly blog. We are taking a short break this week and will be back next Thursday, February 9. Over the coming weeks and months, we will be seeing some follow-up posts for a few of the ongoing series that started in the last quarter of 2022, as well as […]

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Happy Holidays 2022

December 22, 2022 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Dear readers, With winter officially upon us and the holiday season in full swing, the Editors’ Weekly blog will be taking a hiatus until Thursday, January 12. Thank you to all of you who contributed posts to the blog this year. There were some really interesting topics, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading through them. I […]

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Letter From the Editor: A Change to the Blog Schedule

October 18, 2022 by Beau Brock | Leave a Comment

Dear readers, Beginning this week, The Editors’ Weekly will be releasing posts on Thursdays instead of Tuesdays. Stay tuned for the next new post on Thursday, October 20. If you have an idea for a blog post or have any questions, comments or feedback, please let us know! Beau Brock

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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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Support for Editing and Publishing on Giving Tuesday

November 30, 2021 by admin | Leave a Comment

Written with files from Zofia Laubitz, Editors Canada awards coordinator. Today is Giving Tuesday. Described as the “opening day of the giving season,” it is a time when charities, companies and individuals rally for their favourite causes. It’s a perfect time to consider supporting the editing community. Ways to support the editing community Support editors […]

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Letter From the Editor

August 24, 2021 by Lucy Payette | Leave a Comment

Dear Readers, The Editors’ Weekly is on hiatus this week. In the meantime, we hope this post finds you healthy and well this summer. Please let us know if there are topics you’d like to see featured or if you would like to contribute. We are always looking for articles about conferences and workshops of […]

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Summer Reading/Listening Series 2021: Part 2

July 20, 2021 by Lucy Payette | 2 Comments on Summer Reading/Listening Series 2021: Part 2

Some of the best book and podcast recommendations come from fellow editors. In a continuation of our summer series, we’ve asked two more members of our blog committee to share their latest picks. Sue Bowness Sue is the director of communications for Editors Canada, a freelance writer and editor at Codeword Communications and a part-time writing professor […]

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Summer Reading/Listening Series 2021: Part 1

July 6, 2021 by Lucy Payette | 4 Comments on Summer Reading/Listening Series 2021: Part 1

Some of the best book and podcast recommendations come from fellow editors. It’s no surprise — we learn and refine our skills by reading and listening to content. We also read and listen for pleasure (or to make use of those long periods in lockdown). In the spirit of learning, summer and escape, we asked […]

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My COVID-19 Life Edit

May 19, 2020 by Marianne Grier | 11 Comments on My COVID-19 Life Edit

Since COVID-19 came to B.C., I’ve gone through an involuntary life edit. Things have proceeded like any full edit (though let’s skip the proofread for now, shall we?). The first changes were sweeping, dramatic and structural as we paused daycare, moved to working mostly from home and navigating meetings around a toddler, and stopped frequenting […]

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Notes on Notes

January 14, 2020 by Aaron Dalton | 16 Comments on Notes on Notes

I had occasion recently to teach someone how to write effective editorial comments. It was an interesting exercise as it forced me to articulate principles I had absorbed over many years, some learned from painful experience. Here’s what came to mind: Know your place. My job is to help the author produce the best quality […]

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Words We Love Irrationally Much

December 3, 2019 by James Harbeck | 1 Comment on Words We Love Irrationally Much

I asked people on Twitter about words they love irrationally much. I got quite a few responses. Actually, I got so many that when I tried to retweet them all, Twitter finally told me I had reached my daily tweet limit. And did again the next day. The words that people love irrationally much are […]

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The Demise of a Dictionary: Is the Canadian Oxford Dictionary a Victim of its Own Success?

October 1, 2019 by Barbara McClintock | 5 Comments on The Demise of a Dictionary: Is the Canadian Oxford Dictionary a Victim of its Own Success?

The second and possibly last edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary was published in 2004. Why hasn't the Oxford University Press published a new edition in 15 years? There isn’t an up-to-date Canadian dictionary in print.

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Standards at Work: Technical Editing

November 20, 2018 by Shelley Egan, Standards Communication Task Force | Leave a Comment

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) describe the responsibilities of an editor. The scope of PES is broad; this series explores how the standards apply to a variety of editing contexts. Ellen Lupu has been a technical editor for 12 years. Her current project involves writing and editing training material for an oil and gas […]

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Year in Review: The Best of 2016

January 10, 2017 by Anna Williams | 6 Comments on Year in Review: The Best of 2016

With another year behind us, we’d like to know what you liked best on the blog in 2016 and what you’d most like to see in the new year. Let us know in the comments! Here are some of our top picks: Should You Only “Edit What You Know?” by Sue Archer. Should we only […]

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Year in Review: The Best of 2015

January 26, 2016 by Anna Williams | 1 Comment on Year in Review: The Best of 2015

The new year is well underway, and we’ve seized the opportunity to look back at how 2015 progressed on the blog. These are some of our favourite posts from the year: Wasted Words: A Compulsion to Exaggerate, by Wilf Popoff. Whatever became of understatement? In My Opinion, by Susan Glickman. There are a heck of […]

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Happy Holidays from the Editors’ Weekly

December 18, 2015 by Anna Williams | 2 Comments on Happy Holidays from the Editors’ Weekly

Dear Readers, With the holiday season upon us, we’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for subscribing to the Editors’ Weekly and to wish you all the best in the new year. We’ll be taking a break from regular posting until Jan. 5, 2016. Were there any posts that stood out for you this […]

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