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A Book Club for Academic Editors

January 23, 2025 by Letitia Henville | Leave a Comment

Participating in a book club offers a low-cost (or free! thank you, libraries!) opportunity for editors to engage in ongoing professional development and community-building. It’s not just the reading of the book that’s relevant: it’s the opportunity to discuss it with colleagues, debate its finer points and determine whether or not you want to integrate […]

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How Freelance Editors Plan for the Year Ahead

November 14, 2024 by Letitia Henville | 1 Comment on How Freelance Editors Plan for the Year Ahead

I struggle with planning my freelance business: with collecting and analyzing my time-tracking data and my website analytics, with reflecting on the clients and projects I enjoyed and those I didn’t, with knowing when my calendar is fully booked and when I need to push on my marketing.  I can imagine what the process of […]

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Why Academic Editors Should Attend Congress 2024

March 21, 2024 by Letitia Henville | 1 Comment on Why Academic Editors Should Attend Congress 2024

Imagine if you could meet with hundreds — even thousands — of potential editing clients in just one week. Now imagine those potential clients approaching you, asking you questions and being curious about the value that you and your colleagues might bring.  Are you excited by the idea of being able to demystify our profession […]

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Collaborating on a Webinar: Two Editors’ Perspectives

October 12, 2023 by Letitia Henville | Leave a Comment

Katherine Morton and Letitia Henville’s webinar, “Working with Other Editors: What, Why and How,” will be presented live on October 24, 2023; the recording will be available for purchase shortly thereafter.  Have you ever wanted to deliver an Editors Canada webinar but felt uncertain about taking the leap? You don’t have to leap alone — […]

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How (And Why) I Developed a Digital Tool for My Freelance Clients — And Then Gave It Away for Free

September 13, 2022 by Letitia Henville | 1 Comment on How (And Why) I Developed a Digital Tool for My Freelance Clients — And Then Gave It Away for Free

This past June, I launched a new digital tool for academic writers — my preferred clients — at writingwellishard.com. This tool enables academics to compare features of their own writing with the features of a writing sample of their choice. For instance, users could see whether they write sentences that are, on average, longer or […]

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Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

June 28, 2022 by Letitia Henville | 3 Comments on Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

For this year’s Claudette Upton Scholarship, my fellow judges — Lenore Hietkamp and David Johansen — and I selected as our question for nominees’ reflection, “How might kindness be part of the editor’s career?” We chose this question for a number of reasons: our own current thinking about our business practices, the difficulty in coming […]

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The Ethics of Online Portfolios: How Should Editors Showcase their Skills and Experience?

September 7, 2021 by Letitia Henville | 1 Comment on The Ethics of Online Portfolios: How Should Editors Showcase their Skills and Experience?

Editors work in quiet confidence: our job is to help writers to speak with clarity, accuracy and sometimes even flair. In so doing, our own voices are silent, and our perspectives unheard. The best copy edits are the ones a reader can’t see. Because of the editor’s invisibility, I’ve had folks tell me that online […]

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“Meet Your Future Self”: Helping Student Editors Network

August 10, 2021 by Claire Majors | Leave a Comment

Over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying labour market turmoil, Editors BC brought together students and experienced editors for an informal evening of conversation and relationship-building. The Zoom get-together was described by participants as a “valuable and inspiring event” that gave student editors “some clear ideas for moving forward” while allowing experienced […]

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How I’m Hiring a Student to Support My Freelance Editing Business

December 8, 2020 by Letitia Henville | Leave a Comment

I’ve never been happy with the look of my website, shortishard.ca. Yet, I’ve never needed to update it, because I get all my work through referrals, word of mouth or my monthly column, Ask Dr Editor. In 2021, though, things are going to change: I’m hiring an undergraduate student to make my website finally look […]

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Top Three Fixes for Academic Research Grant Applications

March 24, 2020 by Letitia Henville | 3 Comments on Top Three Fixes for Academic Research Grant Applications

As a former in-house grants facilitator in a small health sciences department, and now as a freelance academic editor, I see a lot of the same issues recurring in applications for academic research funding. If I only had an hour or two to review a grant, these are the top three things I’d be looking […]

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Introducing Editor and Poet Margo LaPierre

June 25, 2019 by Letitia Henville | 2 Comments on Introducing Editor and Poet Margo LaPierre

“Everything’s happening at once,” laughs Margo LaPierre, the winner of the 2018 Claudette Upton Scholarship. She’s chatting with me while her husband refuels their car, three-quarters of the way through their 15-hour drive back home to Ottawa after the 2019 Editors Canada Conference in Halifax. A week before finding out the results of the competition, Margo […]

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More Twitter for Wordies

September 18, 2018 by Letitia Henville | 6 Comments on More Twitter for Wordies

A little over two years ago, Lori Burwash sang the praises of Twitter as “a forum where communication must be clear, engaging and concise” — and so of obvious appeal to editors. Since June 2016, Twitter has grown in the public consciousness, with some now seeing it as an echo chamber where extremist political takes […]

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