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R. Franklin Carter

Know Your Legal Limits

Tuesday February 26, 2013

Let’s begin by sketching a fictional but plausible scenario. Dan Ascot is a librarian who works at the University of Western Nebraska. One day, in 2009, he posts a few remarks about a publisher on his blog. He says that Knightsbridge Press, a publisher of scholarly books in Massachusetts, produces “over-priced works of dubious scholarship.” […]

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Virginia Durksen

THE INNER EDITOR: The Useful Conversation

Wednesday July 24, 2013

The desciptive-prescriptive war is over. Long live the conversation. In the past month, my colleagues have been chatting about an article called Descriptivism vs Prescriptivism: War is Over (if you want it). Its heading perpetuates a flawed premise, but the author offers good evidence that prescriptive and descriptive can both be thoughtful approaches to the […]

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Anna Williams

Editor’s Note: Thank You for Your Patience

Sunday March 1, 2015

Dear Readers, Thank you for your patience these last several weeks while our blog went through some technical issues. We are aware that our subscribers weren’t receiving their usual notices when new content was published. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. Things should be back to normal again, although we’re still ironing out […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Tips for Dealing with Freelance Isolation

Tuesday October 6, 2015

Freelance editors are a mousy, introverted, cat-loving lot. They’re pale creatures who are often confined to mouldy basement offices where they stare with glazed eyes at glowing computer monitors, barricaded from the world by stacks upon stacks of dusty tomes. Right? Ha! If that’s what you think, you’ve never been to an Editors Canada conference. […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Avoiding Wordiness

Tuesday March 22, 2016

Plain language communicates written messages clearly and concisely. This is true whether you’re editing stand-alone English copy or translating from other languages. In my experience as an editor and translator, I have had to work with a number of stiff and wordy texts. I usually start by asking, “What needs to be improved?” Should I focus on […]

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Frances Peck

The Story of Canadian English

Tuesday November 21, 2017

For those of us still grieving the defunct Canadian Oxford Dictionary, the release of the second edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, on March 17 this year, lent some comfort. First published in 1967 to coincide with Canada’s centennial, the DCHP not only gives spellings and definitions but also tracks (and sometimes […]

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Frances Peck

Freedom to Read, Willingness to Edit

Tuesday February 26, 2019

Good stories, for me, have never been treacly. My father, an RCMP officer, put people in jail; my mother, a halfway house director, put them back into society. My childhood was one of sensational publications and limited adult supervision. By age 11 I’d read Jaws, Helter Skelter and The Eden Express, a memoir of schizophrenia. […]

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Brendan O’Brien

Editors’ Association of Earth has 10,000 members!

Tuesday October 29, 2019

Editors’ Association of Earth (EAE) is a Facebook group set up in February 2013 by Greg Ioannou and others, with the aim of fostering links between editors internationally. On Oct. 17, its membership reached 10,000. It’s a testament to editors around the world that EAE has become so successful. EAE has evolved in an organic […]

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Aaron Dalton

Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

Tuesday November 5, 2019

I’ve spent most of my career in-house. Currently I work with dozens of individual authors from all across the organization on a diverse array of document types. Though our editorial team works as a pool, a certain degree of specialization is unavoidable. We need to be able to record and share institutional knowledge amongst ourselves […]

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