Filed under: Wilf Popoff WASTED WORDS: The Editor as Analyst Saturday November 24, 2012 ...both lucid and captivating. Why didn’t the writer do this? Tautologies, the main casualties of editing, arouse my curiosity the most. I can blame future prospect on not knowing that... Read more Tagged Taggededitingtautologyusageverbosity
Filed under: Melva McLean LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema Tuesday December 4, 2012 ...A Man and a Woman, starring Anouk Aimée as a script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a car racer. After that, whenever someone asked me what I wanted to be,... Read more Tagged Taggedcontinuityeditingeditoreditors at workfilmscript supervisortypes of editing
Filed under: Emily Distefano Emily Distefano: What’s on My Desk? Thursday January 29, 2026 ...University is that checklists are an absolute must, and for me a physical checklist beats any digital version. I keep master checklist files for copy editing and proofreading on my... Read more Tagged Taggedediting toolseditorseditors at workEmily Distefano
Filed under: Don Mailhot AI: The Power-Hungry Beast Thursday January 22, 2026 ...available at our fingertips with a few prompts and queries. It increases productivity and is an enticing tool. However, as the digital climate changes, it threatens to eliminate or alter... Read more Tagged TaggedAIDon Mailhotediting
Filed under: Wilf Popoff WASTED WORDS: My Hit List Tuesday February 5, 2013 ...simply be mined, refined, and sold. Lawyers and social workers will need to adjust to prisoners being tried, sentenced, and rehabilitated, rather than being subjected to the trial process, sentencing... Read more Tagged Taggededitingredundanciesusage
Filed under: Karen Virag GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Grammar Class Wars Tuesday December 18, 2012 ...to the eternal and irresolvable debate between prescriptivists, who like rules and advocate that people follow them, and descriptivists, who are far more accepting of non-standard and non-traditional uses. Sometimes,... Read more Tagged TaggedCBC RadiodescriptivismeditinggrammarGrammar Gals
