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Mahima Bhagwat on Editing with Authenticity

Thursday March 19, 2026

In this week’s post, Mahima Bhagwat shares her perspective on how editors can help authors shape authentic narratives. Q: You mention on your website that you’ve lived, studied and worked in multiple countries. In what ways does the perspective you’ve gained from that help you as an editor? I’m Indian, and all of my teen […]

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Upgrade Your Editing Checklists

Thursday April 23, 2026

Many editors use checklists, but if you’re looking to make an upgrade , consider coming to my session, Build Better Checklists for Your Editing Tasks, at the Editors Canada conference in May. I’ll be discussing how using comprehensive checklists for your editing tasks can transform your workday! Basic versus comprehensive checklists Checklists are everywhere. Search […]

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Templates as Generative for Creativity: Reading They Say / I Say

Thursday May 14, 2026

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s They Say / I Say aims “to demystify academic writing by isolating its basic moves, explaining them clearly and representing them in the form of templates.” Overview Working from the assumption that “academic writing…calls on writers not simply to express their own ideas but to do so as a response […]

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The Subtle Side of Conscious Language

Thursday July 9, 2026

You’re flying above a work for a structural edit or wading through the waters of a stylistic edit, when you come across a scene or a phrase that makes you pause. Is this potentially harmful? Should I encourage the author to use conscious language here? Karen Yin, in The Conscious Style Guide, suggests that “conscious […]

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Editing Certificate Programs in Canada, Part 2

Thursday July 23, 2026

Welcome back to our two-part exploration of editing certificate programs in Canada. Last week, we covered the programs offered through Mount Royal University and George Brown College, both of which focus on brand-new or prospective editors. Today, we will look at the certificates available from Queen’s University and Simon Fraser University, as well as how […]

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Transferable Skills for Editing

Thursday August 20, 2026

I recently attended my first Editors Canada conference in the beautiful city of Halifax. I justified the trip from Manitoba to Nova Scotia as a first step in the right direction toward my new freelance editing career. Deciding to include myself among this crowd felt a little presumptuous, but I convinced myself I would attend […]

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Reader-Friendly Academic Writing (It’s Not Impossible!)

Thursday October 15, 2026

In November, the academic editing book club will meet online to discuss Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, by Leonard Cassuto. This book club is run by the Academic Editing special interest group (SIG), a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA). As editors, we’re taught to prioritize the reader. For those […]

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Academic Book Club academic editing Jenn Rossiter

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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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Gettable Grammar: Learning to Like “Like”

Tuesday April 9, 2013

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. One often hears complaints about how some people litter their sentences with the word like — not as a noun, verb, preposition or conjunction, but as, like, an interjection. Like that. Now I know that Canadians like to blame Americans for […]

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