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General EAC Laura Bontje

Closing the Book on 2023

Thursday December 21, 2023

Dear readers, The Editors’ Weekly will be taking a holiday break, with no posts on December 28 and January 4. We’ll be back in the new year with new posts about the academic editing special interest group, the Editors Canada national executive council, embracing neurodivergence as an editor, an exciting new project for language lovers […]

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Trello for Editors: Three Ways to Make It Your Own

Thursday August 29, 2024

In any project-driven job, it’s important to have a system for tracking your workflow and deadlines. Project management tools can vary from paper to-do lists to free or paid software. But it can take time to find the system that works best for you, especially when you’re not sure how best to optimize it for […]

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AI: The Power-Hungry Beast

Thursday January 22, 2026

With all this talk of AI, we are entering a time of transition and change as our society becomes increasingly dependent on it. It’s hard to ignore the practical uses of AI. We are seeing AI take redundant tasks and spit out results in a fraction of time. Simple, streamlined and quick. Results that sometimes […]

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Introducing the Career Development Hub

Thursday March 5, 2026

Have you heard? Editors Canada has launched a subsite called the Career Development Hub (the Hub), a user-friendly webpage for members that collects career-building resources for all types of editors, in all industries and at all stages, whether student affiliate or advanced. In this post, Alex Benarzi, Lynne Melcombe and Holly Vestad explain how the […]

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DISPATCHES 2: What’s in an Internship?

Tuesday April 2, 2013

When I enrolled at Ryerson in the fall of 2011, I took as many editing courses as I could. Copy editing, proofreading, grammar, substantive editing…. The more courses I took, the more I loved working with words. After years of university, here I was, finally surrounded by people who thought exactly as I did. People […]

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Editors and Self-Publishing Authors

Tuesday June 25, 2013

As editors, we must break out of our anonymous shell and shout our virtues loudly and clearly for writers to hear. We’ve all heard the stories: a few authors who self-publish do extremely well, earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, while the majority have little success, bringing in less than $500 all told. […]

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Lessons Learned From Eminem, David Ogilvy and a Sex Hotline

Tuesday April 29, 2014

It all started respectably enough. Publishing courses at Ryerson, EAC workshops and conferences, the Banff Book Editing Workshop. I’ve had rock-solid editorial training. So what have a rap artist, an ad man and a sex hotline taught me about writing and editing? Some pretty useful things, it turns out. Eminem: Write and edit like a […]

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Why Reading Is a Great Hobby for an Editor/Writer

Tuesday June 10, 2014

The biographies of skilled communicators often reveal a lifelong, serious reading habit. I don’t think this is a coincidence. I have read constantly and voraciously since the age of five, and I give that habit (addiction?) a lot of the credit for the writing and editing skills I have developed. Reading makes you smart Those […]

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Editing Goes Global: A British Perspective

Tuesday August 11, 2015

I still vividly remember my first experience of an editorial conference. I came away with a very strong sense of belonging and of being part of a community. I probably learned some useful facts or techniques, but more importantly I was able to have discussions with colleagues and make strong connections with a number of […]

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