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Up the Creek: Extreme Editing Solutions

Thursday February 27, 2025

Sometimes, we are editing “up the creek”: we have taken on too much work, neglected a deadline or otherwise wound up under pressure to produce a large amount of work in a very short time. When you’re way up that creek and your paddle is far behind you, you may have to forge a new […]

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Zanne Klingenberg

Get to Know Your New Blog Team: Zanne Klingenberg

Thursday August 28, 2025

This week, meet Zanne Klingenberg, managing editor, in our third and final post in our mini-series introducing the new editorial board at The Editors’ Weekly! What kind of editing work do you do? I like variety in my work! Having clients from a variety of industries and working on different stages of a document keeps […]

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A published typo might seem like the end of the world to an editor, but being a perfectionist isn’t the answer either.

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Virginia Durksen

Myth: Perfection is the Goal

Wednesday October 16, 2013

We’ve all had that moment of pride when the book or the brochure arrives, still smelling of ink. And the next moment, when we open the book to discover the glaring error that has somehow managed to survive our eagle-eyed hunt, to live forever as testament to our failure. That moment is sent by the […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Mind Your Noun Strings, Please!

Tuesday September 15, 2015

If you regularly work with French copy, you know that French emphasizes nouns more than English does. This results in our Gallic official language constantly using noun strings — that is, strings containing several nouns in a row. They will often take the form [noun] + of + (the) + [noun]: la gestion de la […]

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Dwain Richardson English Editing in Quebec French to English noun strings translation

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Oh, My Aching Eyeballs!

Tuesday August 16, 2016

Lately, I find myself wishing I’d picked a profession where I didn’t need to look at computer screens. Or read a lot. Or use my eyes at all, really. (Being a taste tester at a chocolate factory sounds like an attractive career change right about now.) My distance vision has always been terrible, but now […]

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Peerwith.com: A Peer-to-Peer Editorial Platform

Tuesday November 24, 2020

There are career opportunities for editors who are interested in helping non-native English-speaking researchers prepare their papers for publication. This type of work allows editors to meet and work with smart, interesting people and have a front-row seat to new research coming on stream. The Peerwith community Peerwith.com is an innovative peer-to-peer (P2P) platform that […]

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Searching for the Positive Side of Change

Tuesday December 21, 2021

Many of my conversations of late have started with “I would have thought by now we would be … ” or “I’m not sure what the next few months will bring ….” This past year has been called many things: the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the second year of COVID. Whatever you call this […]

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“Brag docs”: An Aide-mémoire

Thursday January 26, 2023

Performance reviews and discussions around compensation are part of working in house. You can’t just unilaterally change your hourly rate. If you want to get ahead, you need to be able to have uncomfortable conversations and demonstrate your value. But if you’re anything like me, remembering what you did last week, let alone last year, […]

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Anne Louise Mahoney

Feeling Scattered or Overwhelmed? Some Tips for Staying Focused

Thursday February 8, 2024

After reading Nicola Aquino’s blog post “Editing in Times of Chaos and Loss,” I’ve been thinking about ways editors can stay focused and motivated when feeling overwhelmed. This could be in times of trial, but also when our energy or mood is low, when there are distractions outside of our control, when the content is […]

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