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Wasted Words: Exploration or Exploitation?

Tuesday May 15, 2018

At times this blog can set off a chain reaction. When Anna Williams wrote about childhood reading, I began exploring my fading cranial archive. Anita Jenkins focused my search with her comments on Grey Owl’s cultural appropriation. I must confess that a lot of the books of my youth would be, in today’s climate, politically […]

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Quick Topics: Born or Made

Tuesday February 5, 2019

Many of us started out in other careers and came to editing via circuitous routes. Some of us were teachers; some were engineers; some were writers who drifted into the editing side of the industry. In some cases, we had jobs that required us to fix other people’s work on a regular basis, and that’s […]

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Writing Resumés and Cover Letters

Tuesday June 11, 2019

I occasionally hire copy editors, and it’s fascinating to see how people handle the rather limited genres of the résumé and cover letter. Traditional wisdom says that applicants can be divided into roughly three categories: not at all qualified, kinda qualified and well qualified. My focus here is how to get from the second category […]

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Alone at the Intersection of Editing and Engineering

Sunday August 11, 2019

This post is part of a new series of case studies by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on the personal experiences and various roles of in-house editors. A post will appear on the Editors’ Weekly every other month. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the Member Services Committee. […]

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Asking for Help: Lessons from Toddlerhood

Tuesday March 3, 2020

My two-and-a-half-year-old daughter has been asking for help since the day she was born. She first expressed herself, as babies do, with simple cries that left much to interpretation. Her expressions progressed from “Help!” to “Mama, please could you help me with ___.” While she clearly values doing certain things by herself, she has never […]

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Academic Research Grants

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Letitia Henville

Top Three Fixes for Academic Research Grant Applications

Tuesday March 24, 2020

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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Diversity in Publishing: An Interview with Sangeeta Mehta

Tuesday April 21, 2020

This week, the Editors’ Weekly is holding a conversation with Sangeeta Mehta on the current state of diversity in publishing and how editors can be leaders in the fight for inclusion. About Sangeeta Sangeeta Mehta has worked in the book publishing field since the late 1990s. She has been an acquiring editor at both Little, […]

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Wildcards and Regular Expressions

Tuesday November 10, 2020

Recently, I’ve seen some problems involving global text edits that were easily solved with Microsoft Word’s Advanced Find and Replace feature. Spending some time learning the ins and outs of this feature will more than pay off when you’re able to do something in minutes that would take you hours to do manually. Find and […]

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Barbara McClintock

Sex, Gender and Pronouns: Using the Correct Pronouns for Inclusiveness

Tuesday November 17, 2020

In the U.S. presidential election this month, the first openly transgender woman, Sarah McBride, won a seat in the Delaware State Senate. It’s a milestone for diversity and one that has an impact on our work as writers and editors. Striving to ensure the equality of men and women in professional writing is not new […]

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A Day in the Life of a Communications Manager: Marianne Grier

Tuesday June 1, 2021

Writing and editing career paths can take many directions. In this new “day-in-the-life” series, experienced professionals share their personal experiences and various roles related to writing, editing and communications. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email The Editors’ Weekly. What is your job? I’m an operations manager for communication and […]

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