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Rosemary Shipton

Mentoring

Tuesday June 7, 2016

What’s the best way to pass skills, experience and business smarts from one person to another? Mentoring tops the list. We humans have always known the value of one-on-one instruction: parents teach their trade or profession to their children, apprentices work for years with their masters and young hires look for an old hand in […]

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Dominique Fortier

Adresser

Tuesday April 26, 2016

Le verbe adresser, en français, signifie « envoyer » (on adresse une lettre à quelqu’un) ou « émettre des paroles » (on adresse des critiques, des compliments, la parole à quelqu’un). Adresser signifie aussi « diriger quelqu’un vers la personne qui convient » (on adresse un malade à un spécialiste). L’expression pronominale s’adresser à quelqu’un signifie, pour sa part, « parler à […]

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Should You Only “Edit What You Know”?

Tuesday March 8, 2016

Writers are often told to “write what they know.” But what about editors? Should we only take on projects that are squarely in our comfort zones? When I asked this question online, I found that many of my editing colleagues endorse the idea of editing in new areas. It’s a fantastic way to develop your […]

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Anna Williams General EAC

Year in Review: The Best of 2015

Tuesday January 26, 2016

The new year is well underway, and we’ve seized the opportunity to look back at how 2015 progressed on the blog. These are some of our favourite posts from the year: Wasted Words: A Compulsion to Exaggerate, by Wilf Popoff. Whatever became of understatement? In My Opinion, by Susan Glickman. There are a heck of […]

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Wasted Words: Don’t Meddle With Shakespeare

Tuesday November 10, 2015

You might think that, as an editor, I would endorse a plan to rewrite Shakespeare in modern English. After all, as the advocates of this undertaking argue, Shakespeare’s language cannot be understood by contemporary audiences, and our profession is all about understanding. However, this has little to do with editing. If Shakespeare’s writing comes across […]

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May I Help You?

Tuesday November 3, 2015

“Hello, Ms. Client? I’m Sue Archer from Customer Relations, and I’m calling to follow up with you about your complaint.” I’ve performed a number of difficult jobs in my life, but by far the most challenging one was a call centre role where I dealt solely with complaints. Every day it was my job to […]

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Victoria Neufeldt

Undue Care and Attention

Tuesday October 13, 2015

Are you ever guilty of writing with undue care and attention? If you didn’t spot the clunker in the preceding sentence, prop your eyes open and attend! We think we know the language and may even make our living by writing and editing, but the ways to slip up are infinite, providing sport for many […]

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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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