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Tracey Anderson

Writing Coaches and Writers — “A Beautiful Synergy”: An Interview with Tanya Gold

Tuesday May 18, 2021

Tanya Gold is a book editor, writing coach, translator and literary omnivore. She’s been in publishing about 20 years and has worked on all kinds of cool books. These days, she works on fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. It has been suggested that she reads too much for her own good. This might be true. […]

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Jennifer Glossop

Following Katherine Barber

Thursday May 6, 2021

Last week, the editing community lost one of its finest contributors: Katherine Barber died on April 24. Katherine’s works and words were often quoted in Editors Canada discussions, and she was a keynote speaker at the 2015 conference. Author, editor and friend Jennifer Glossop remembers Katherine’s passions. A blue ballet shoe on a stick — […]

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Natalia Iwanek

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Donna L. Dawson

Tuesday April 13, 2021

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. Donna L. Dawson is the winner of […]

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Glenna Jenkins

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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Gael Spivak

Running Out of Words: It’s Not a Slippery Slope

Tuesday January 19, 2021

It’s almost inevitable. People who say “we’ve gotten too PC” about language will, at some point in the discussion, claim that if we stop using certain words or phrases, we’ll run out of words to write and talk. Arriving at this spot Who is having these discussions and how does this line of thinking work? […]

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Barbara McClintock

Sex, Gender and Pronouns: Using the Correct Pronouns for Inclusiveness

Tuesday November 17, 2020

In the U.S. presidential election this month, the first openly transgender woman, Sarah McBride, won a seat in the Delaware State Senate. It’s a milestone for diversity and one that has an impact on our work as writers and editors. Striving to ensure the equality of men and women in professional writing is not new […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Learnings from LinkedIn: Optimize for Success

Tuesday October 27, 2020

As I write this, I’m in the midst of marking 80 LinkedIn profiles. You read that right: in both of my online writing courses this term, I’ve assigned LinkedIn profiles as task number one. That’s how important I think they are to students embarking on a new career path. Part public resumé, part networking channel, […]

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