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Virginia Durksen

Interview With Dr. Suzanne M. Steele

Tuesday September 4, 2018

Part 1: Dr. Suzanne M. Steele, scholar and editor Dr. Suzanne Steele has built her career on words as a librarian, a war poet, a librettist, a teacher and an academic editor working with ESL writers who are often translating their ideas across cultures as well as languages. Virginia Durksen is the editor for Suzanne’s […]

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On Editing an Editor: Shannon Scott and Sam Keir (Morgan Klein) in Conversation

Thursday March 27, 2025

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 editor/writers and their editors, The Editors’ Weekly asked two editors to reflect on their experience of working together. Sam Keir (he/him) is a […]

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Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards: Part 3

Tuesday May 31, 2022

Past, Present and Future — One Editor’s Perspective This is the final post 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 asked how PES might help us prepare for the […]

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Seasoned Editors’ Tips for Newcomers

Thursday November 16, 2023

Making a mid-career change can be as thrilling as it is terrifying. When I decided to pivot into the world of editing and publishing from a career in legal and regulatory work, I was overwhelmed with questions, doubts and the general uncertainty that comes with stepping into a new field. That’s when I realized that […]

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Meredith Harris

A Guide to Developmental Editing for Academic Manuscripts

Thursday August 13, 2026

In September, the academic editing book club will meet online to discuss Make Your Manuscript Work: A Guide to Developmental Editing for Scholarly Writers by Laura Portwood-Stacer. This book club is run by the Academic Editing special interest group (SIG), a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA). About the book Make […]

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Substantive Editing Versus Developmental Editing

Thursday October 30, 2025

Editors are notorious for having many names for subtly different kinds of editing — line editing, stylistic editing, substantive editing and copyediting. This article focuses on substantive editing. It’s my favourite service, and I believe it provides the best value to both academics and fiction authors. Developmental editing: A new name for substantive editing? Editor […]

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Book Recommendations for Editors

Thursday November 30, 2023

As winter holidays approach, it’s a great time to start thinking about books! This year, we asked the student affiliate Facebook group and the Editors’ Weekly blog team for their book recommendations for editors. Whether you’re looking for a literary gift for the editor in your life or planning to curl up with some reading […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Twelve-Step Editing

Tuesday November 4, 2014

One project, one editor — that’s the norm in Canada today. Only a few large trade publishers and a small number of government departments still divide editing between structural/stylistic editors and copy editors, while the rapidly dwindling group of educational publishers distinguish between developmental editing and copy editing. Almost all the other publishers, institutions and […]

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Christine Peric

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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