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Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 2

Tuesday March 1, 2022

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is the second in a three-part series about my thoughts and experiences as they pertain to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) and my ongoing work with the Editors Canada standards committee. In Part 2, I’ll look at some of the ideas and issues that have […]

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Amy J. Schneider

Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

Tuesday May 24, 2022

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Amy J. Schneider has been a full-time freelance copyeditor and proofreader of fiction and non-fiction and the owner of Featherschneider Editorial Services since 1995. Since 2012 Amy has written articles and presented in-person and online sessions on […]

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Letitia Henville

Reflections on Kindness from Early-Career Editors

Tuesday June 28, 2022

For this year’s Claudette Upton Scholarship, my fellow judges — Lenore Hietkamp and David Johansen — and I selected as our question for nominees’ reflection, “How might kindness be part of the editor’s career?” We chose this question for a number of reasons: our own current thinking about our business practices, the difficulty in coming […]

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Cathy McPhalen

A New Gathering Place for Academic Editors

Tuesday September 20, 2022

Editors Canada is launching a special interest group for freelance and in-house editors who work with academic clients: individual researchers, universities, students or academic journals and publishers. The vision for this virtual group is to provide a space to discuss themes and share information around editing in academic realms. Our academic clients need editors more […]

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Michelle Noble

How to Build an Editing Website

Thursday August 3, 2023

Editors who are starting in the field these days are generally expected to have a web presence, but what should that entail? Is an editing website necessary? And what is the best approach to creating one? The Editors Canada student relations committee recently hosted a discussion series in the student affiliate Facebook group to gather […]

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General EAC Laura Bontje

Letter from the Editor: Write for The Editors’ Weekly

Thursday August 24, 2023

Happy summer, readers! The Editors’ Weekly is taking a break for the rest of August. It’s time to enjoy the last weeks of summer — and of summer reading! Have you read any great books lately? This summer, I set myself a goal of reading only Canadian literature, and it’s been fantastic! (Need a good […]

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On Editing an Editor: Brenna Bailey-Davies and Genevieve Clovis in Conversation

Thursday September 21, 2023

Editing an author calls for a blend of sharp-eyed clarity, cheerleading and hand-holding. What if the author is also an editor? As part of a series of blog posts featuring conversations between author-editors and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working together. Genevieve Clovis (Toronto, Ont.) is […]

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Aline Dias Camargo

Volunteer for the Academic Editing Chapter

Thursday January 11, 2024

Becoming — and then being — an academic editor is not an easy task. It can be isolating to work alone through a pile of journal articles or a seemingly endless dissertation. If you are interested in advancing your skills, advocating for the profession, supporting emerging editors or connecting with like-minded people, then we invite […]

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Heather Buzila

The NEC in Detail: Director of Training and Development and Director of Volunteer Relations

Thursday February 15, 2024

This is the sixth and final post in a series describing the roles of the Editors Canada national executive council by Heather Buzila. This series is also available in French (cette série est également disponible en français).  Following on my post about the directors of professional standards and publishing, I’ll provide an overview of the duties […]

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Kay Pettigrew

Reflections from a 2023 Equity Fellow

Thursday March 7, 2024

I have been getting a lot of mileage out of telling everyone who will listen that I am one of the recipients of Editors Canada’s 2023 Equity Fellowships. It’s a bit of a weird thing to brag about, since essentially, I am outing myself as a member of equity-seeking groups. But I have felt proud […]

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