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Searching for the Positive Side of Change

Tuesday December 21, 2021

Many of my conversations of late have started with “I would have thought by now we would be … ” or “I’m not sure what the next few months will bring ….” This past year has been called many things: the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the second year of COVID. Whatever you call this […]

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Cover of Networking for Freelance Editors: Practical Strategies for Networking Success, by Brittany Dowdle and Linda Ruggeri.

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Jasmine Peteran

Book Review: Networking for Freelance Editors

Tuesday February 8, 2022

For many of us out here in the freelance world, networking can feel like a chore. But Networking for Freelance Editors: Practical Strategies for Networking Success taught me two key things that turned a chore into a worthwhile challenge. For starters, activities I’m already doing willingly and regularly can become effective networking tactics with the […]

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Aaron Dalton

What is Plain Language? Part 5: The Nitty-gritty

Tuesday February 15, 2022

This is the fifth and last in a series of articles discussing the basic principles of plain language by Aaron Dalton. I offer two half-day workshops: the first is all about the why and then we look at some document-level issues like tone. This is the workshop that I am most passionate about and try to get […]

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Letitia Henville

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

Tuesday September 13, 2022

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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Beau Brock

Editing a Translation: Finding the Balance

Thursday October 27, 2022

It has been nearly three months since I began my tenure as managing editor of The Editors’ Weekly, and I realized that I haven’t properly introduced myself yet to the readership. For shame! In today’s post, I will give a brief overview of the area of editing where I spend the vast majority of my […]

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Tali Ijack

What Role Can Editors Play in the Conscious Language Debate?

Thursday June 8, 2023

Conscious language (also known as inclusive language) is a topic that is gaining a lot of attention on a global scale. Recently, there has been some heated debate over some publishers’ decisions to edit the works of Roald Dahl and Agatha Christie to align with current language standards. These debates highlight the divide that exists […]

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Iva Cheung Laura Bontje

The Other Kind of Editorial Cartoon

Thursday September 14, 2023

There are certain feelings that every editor is bound to experience: the joy of making a great catch, the frustration of dealing with a difficult project, the excitement of taking a selfie with a favourite punctuation mark — wait, maybe not that last one. That is, unless you’re Bespectacled Editor, the passionate, wry heroine of […]

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Cat London

Talking Sh!t: Editing Swear Words

Thursday May 9, 2024

As editors, we think and talk a great deal about words. We analyze words, we move them around, we cross some out and we add others in. When we gather at conferences and meetings across the world, we talk about words and then we come home and frequently read and write about words. But there’s […]

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Madeleine Vasaly

An Introduction to Proofreading Comics

Thursday May 16, 2024

If you proofread prose books or magazines, working on your first comic book or graphic novel can be intimidating. A lot of your skills are transferable and will serve you well across media types, but some editorial elements are handled differently. Reading comics from a range of genres and publishers will help you get familiar […]

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Sohini Ghose

Sohini Ghose: An Editor’s Top 3

Thursday October 3, 2024

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Sohini Ghose (she/her) is an editor with over fifteen years of international experience, having worked on an array of books with indie and major publishers, university presses, and debut and bestselling authors, including a Nobel Prize laureate. […]

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