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Emerge From the Shadows via the Our Languages Blog

Tuesday September 26, 2017

“If only I could rewrite this text!” If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably had a similar reaction, especially if your clients are looking for a “soothing” edit. You know the kind I mean: one that doesn’t involve any changes beyond sprinkling a few commas here and there… I spent almost 10 years fixing language […]

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Tracey Anderson

Editing the Work of Writers Whose First Language Isn’t English

Tuesday March 7, 2017

Canada is a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages from around the world. As the number of residents whose native language isn’t English increases, the need for editors who can edit their writing effectively and sensitively grows, too. Before my editing career began, I taught English as a second language for over 15 years in China, […]

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Zanne Cameron

Being Intercultural: The Language of Health

Tuesday August 30, 2016

Being intercultural is often defined strictly in terms of ethnicity and geography, when really each of us lives a multiplicity of cultural identities on a daily basis. Our interactions at work and with family and friends, our activities, faith, offline and online personas, all have their own overlapping and intersecting sets of beliefs, values and […]

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Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

Tuesday July 8, 2014

At an age when young men are learning to shave, I was hanging out at police stations and courthouses. No, I wasn’t in trouble with the law. I was a newspaper reporter, writing about the legal problems of others and the policemen* who brought them to justice. In fact, the only crimes I committed were […]

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Alvaro Miranda

An Editor’s First Academic Conference

Monday March 10, 2025

In the first week of 2025, historians swarmed Midtown Manhattan for the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA), one of the largest associations of historians in the world. While I hold a master’s in modern European history, I’m a relatively new freelance proofreader and copyeditor. I attended the conference hoping to learn more […]

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Amanda Goldrick-Jones Anneline du Preez Laura Bontje Natalia Iwanek

Looking Ahead with The Editors’ Weekly, West Coast Editor and BoldFace

Thursday December 19, 2024

With 2025 on its way, the editors of three Editors Canada blogs have come together in a series of collaborative posts to reflect on our experiences. Part one appeared in West Coast Editor, the blog for Editors BC, and introduced more about the blogs and their editors. BoldFace, the official blog of Editors Toronto, shared […]

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Michelle Waitzman

Five Tips for Creating a Newsletter People Will Actually Read

Thursday October 10, 2024

Michelle Waitzman will be discussing more about using plain language principles to improve newsletters — as well as professional emails and presentations — in her webinar “Newsletters, Emails and Presentations: Improving the Tools of Business Communications” on October 29 at 1 pm ET. Marketing experts have been telling business owners and solopreneurs for years that […]

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Free (or Cheap) Tools for Freelance Editors: Part 3

Thursday August 15, 2024

Back in April, Editors Canada released the revised edition of Professional Editorial Standards, and we noticed the addition of IDEA (inclusivity, diversity, equity and accessibility) concepts. Understanding how language can be biased, coded, inaccessible, harmful or careless is foundational to the work we do as editors. In this final article of our series on free […]

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General EAC Laura Bontje

Goodbyes and Hellos: Changes to Our Editorial Team

Thursday July 4, 2024

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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Rees Storm

Crafting Our Message: Academic Editing and the Public

Thursday May 23, 2024

As populism and funding priorities threaten the existence of post-secondary and research institutions, academic writing persists. So, too, does academic editing. In early April, I was part of a group of four panelists who converged at the ACES conference in San Diego, California, to talk about the challenges facing academic editing. Whether you are an […]

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