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DISPATCHES 2: What’s in an Internship?

Tuesday April 2, 2013

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. After years of university, here I was, finally surrounded by people who thought exactly as I did. People […]

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This image is a head shot of designer Naomi MacDougall, taken outside against a background of leafy trees. She wears shoulder-length brunette hair and is smiling slightly at the camera.

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What does your markup say about you?

Tuesday March 19, 2013

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 his micromanaging […]

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A text-only image, which is a definition by Ambrose Bierce, from his acerbic book, The Devil’s Dictonary. The definition reads: “Defame, verb transitive. To lie about another. To tell the truth about another.” In the red and black background, a dictionary excerpt of the word “justice” fades in at bottom.

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Know Your Legal Limits

Tuesday February 26, 2013

Let’s begin by sketching a fictional but plausible scenario. Dan Ascot is a librarian who works at the University of Western Nebraska. One day, in 2009, he posts a few remarks about a publisher on his blog. He says that Knightsbridge Press, a publisher of scholarly books in Massachusetts, produces “over-priced works of dubious scholarship.” […]

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About the Blog

The Editors’ Weekly / L’Hebdomadaire des réviseurs is the official blog of Editors Canada. Editors Canada promotes professional editing for print and online communications. Our 1,300 members include salaried and freelance editors who work in the corporate, technical, government, not-for-profit, education and publishing sectors. Authors contributing to this blog include many recognized professional Canadian editors as […]

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Starting the Conversation

Tuesday November 20, 2012

Welcome to The Editors’ Weekly, official blog of the Editors’ Association of Canada/Association canadienne des réviseurs (EAC/ACR). The EAC promotes professional editing for print and online communications. Our 1,600 members include salaried and freelance editors who work in the corporate, technical, government, not-for-profit, education and publishing sectors. Authors contributing to this blog will include many recognized […]

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