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Piggy bank and money

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Time, Money and the Freelance Life

Tuesday March 24, 2015

For a creative professional or craftsperson, the business side of freelancing can be challenging. “I don’t want to run a business. I just want to write!” Or edit, or photograph, or paint or sing. Yet by selling your services or products, you are running a business. Why not run it well? So well that the […]

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English test

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What’s English? | Linguistics, Frankly

Wednesday November 12, 2014

Here’s a quick quiz. Tell me which of the following are English and which aren’t. For each one, say why it is or isn’t English and, if it’s not, what language it is. There’s no place to plug your car in in the parkade. A wha dat dey dem people deh nyam ih smell sweet. […]

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Lee d'Anjou

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Six Volunteers Receive Honorary CPE Status

Tuesday October 7, 2014

Back in the Wild West days of editing (about the late 1980s or so), there were no competency tests for editors and few if any educational programs designed to serve the needs of the publishing industry. Some members of the then Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada were looking for objective ways to demonstrate that editors […]

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jeux-langues-traduction_translation-quiz

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Dominique Fortier

Les langagières et les langagiers sont‑ils encore utiles?

Tuesday September 30, 2014

Ça ne s’invente pas. Voici le genre de traduction que l’on voit régulièrement sur l’emballage de produits en vente au Québec. C’est tellement gros qu’il vaut mieux en rire. Lisez la description du produit (pardonnez la piètre qualité des photos qui suivent) et dites-moi si vous y avez compris quelque chose. Le francophone moyen en perd […]

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Jennifer Foster

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Keenness of Eye and Humble Pie, Along That Path Awards Will Lie

Tuesday September 2, 2014

In this instalment of our “Editors in the Spotlight” series, Abby Egerter interviews editor Jennifer Foster, who worked on the award-winning Dirty Science: 25 Experiments with Soil, by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone. Jennifer Foster has been editing for 17 years and freelancing for 10. However, book publishing is something of a new venture for […]

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Paper stack with red and black pencils

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The Lucky Ones

Tuesday August 26, 2014

How often have I heard the comment that editors are failed writers — or, in the scholarly environment in which I work, failed academics. Even when said in jest, the underlying suggestion is that one way of interacting with words and ideas — the editor’s — is somehow inferior. Such statements also hint at a […]

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Peter Midgley

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An Intricate Relief Carving on an Eggshell: Working With Peter Midgley on The Last Temptation of Bond

Tuesday July 22, 2014

This is the first in our new “Editors in the Spotlight” series, spotlighting editors who have won awards or participated in award-winning projects. In this post, Kimmy Beach interviews Peter Midgley, who won the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for editing her book, The Last Temptation of Bond. ~~~ Peter and I meet at […]

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Police car pulling over driver

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Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

Tuesday July 8, 2014

At an age when young men are learning to shave, I was hanging out at police stations and courthouses. No, I wasn’t in trouble with the law. I was a newspaper reporter, writing about the legal problems of others and the policemen* who brought them to justice. In fact, the only crimes I committed were […]

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revision-pour-provincial-ou-federal-dominique-fortier Savoir qui est son client lorsque l'on révise ou rédige un texte. Toujours tenir compte du fait que son client vient du provincial ou du fédéral. L'orthographe ou la typographie peuvent varier. Know your client when editing or writing a text in French. Ask yourself from which kind of organisation he or she comes from. Does he or she come from the Quebec provincial government or from the federal government? One has to adjust the terminology and typography according to one or the other rules.

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Dominique Fortier

Tenir compte de l’ordre de gouvernement pour lequel on travaille

Tuesday May 20, 2014

Mis à jour le 23 mai 2014 On peut souvent avoir l’impression qu’il y a une faute ici ou là, selon la provenance du texte que l’on a sous les yeux. Et se demander ce qu’il faudrait écrire ou s’il faut corriger ceci ou cela. Eh bien! ça dépend. Les personnes qui rédigent, révisent ou […]

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