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The Effects of AI on Academic Editing

Thursday June 20, 2024

OpenAI announced on May 13, 2024, that their new model, ChatGPT-4o — which, at its highest level, now appears to be capable of conversations almost indiscernible from those with a human — is now being made available to all users for free (with limitations). Given that ChatGPT already has over 100 million users per week, […]

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Emily Doucet on the Editing of Art

Thursday February 12, 2026

Welcome to a new series about arts and art history editing. In this post we’ll meet Emily Doucet and learn about her experience editing art and art history texts. How did you enter the field of arts/art history editing? I did a PhD in art history and have published art criticism over the years. In […]

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Virginia Durksen

Inner Editor: Tasks Without Edges

Tuesday February 28, 2017

As the oft-paraphrased Leonardo da Vinci would have it, art [or poetry or writing or editing] is never finished, only abandoned. Writing is like a teenager. Eventually you have to send it out into the world to fend for itself. (Or should I say it’s like a young adult? Most North Americans freak out at […]

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PES in the Field: Raising (the Topic of) Our Standards

Tuesday February 27, 2018

“I’m talking about making something less boring.” This was feedback from an Editors Canada member on a draft of the latest update to Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES). The 2016 update was a year-long process that incorporated feedback and comments from many members. When a draft of the new text was circulated for final […]

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Support for Editing and Publishing on Giving Tuesday

Tuesday November 30, 2021

Written with files from Zofia Laubitz, Editors Canada awards coordinator. Today is Giving Tuesday. Described as the “opening day of the giving season,” it is a time when charities, companies and individuals rally for their favourite causes. It’s a perfect time to consider supporting the editing community. Ways to support the editing community Support editors […]

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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice

Tuesday January 8, 2013

As a young reader, I liked writers who tactfully addressed the “gentle reader.” Perhaps I enjoyed the ironic wink suggesting that writer and reader are both in on creating the story. Indirectly or directly, good writers invite the reader to trust the unfolding tale, just as they find a way to signal their trust […]

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How the Pandemic Allowed Me to Learn a New Skill

Tuesday January 26, 2021

Last year, when Peerwith management asked me whether I could revise a paper written in Overleaf — an online LaTeX editor for the production of technical and scientific documentation — I saw it as a learning opportunity. Working as an academic editor through Peerwith.com meant I dodged the many changes and challenges the majority of […]

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Review: The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt

Tuesday September 14, 2021

Disclaimer: I received a free year of access to The Chicago Manual of Style Online (CMOS Online) and PerfectIt 5 as part of testing the beta version and writing this review. Efficiency is key to maximizing your income. There are only so many hours in a day, so you simply must do more in those […]

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The Editor’s Fedora Part 1

Tuesday February 25, 2014

As an independent writer myself and a passionate believer in the indie ethic, I have to acknowledge one of its major downsides: a real or perceived shoddiness in the final product of self-published authors. Which is where I now switch hats and replace the bohemian beret of the writer with a more conservative form of […]

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