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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

How to Offer Your Authors Positive Feedback

Tuesday October 5, 2021

Recognizing and affirming your clients’ strengths is one of the best ways to create a collaborative partnership, encourage their learning and boost their confidence. This comes in especially handy if you work with ESL authors, job seekers, new authors or anyone who is entering a new genre or role. Trusting their text or important document […]

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Aaron Dalton

What is Plain Language? Part 3: When You Assume …

Tuesday October 12, 2021

This is the third in a series of articles discussing the basic principles of plain language by Aaron Dalton. You’re preparing a speech for a community association. You disagree with a particular policy, but you moderate your language because you “know” that most people disagree with you. What nobody realizes, though, is that actually, most people disagree […]

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Lynne Williams

Safety and Respect: A Look at Editors Canada’s Workplace Harassment Policy

Tuesday June 21, 2022

In March, the Canadian Labour Congress released findings from a national survey on workplace harassment. It was the first of its kind in Canada and revealed that 7 in 10 workers have experienced some form of harassment at work. The study’s researchers also found an increase in online harassment since the start of the pandemic, […]

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Letitia Henville

How Freelance Editors Plan for the Year Ahead

Thursday November 14, 2024

I struggle with planning my freelance business: with collecting and analyzing my time-tracking data and my website analytics, with reflecting on the clients and projects I enjoyed and those I didn’t, with knowing when my calendar is fully booked and when I need to push on my marketing.  I can imagine what the process of […]

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Illustration of two people with a giant typewriter. A short-haired person reads a book at the base of the typewriter while a long-haired person stands on a ladder to reach the paper, where random letters fly off the page.
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Aaron Dalton

Literacy in Canada: What You Need to Know

Thursday February 20, 2025

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tracks important statistics around the world. They assess literacy with a standardized measure called the Survey of Adult Skills, which is designed to be repeated every ten years. As advocates for the reader, editors should know as much about them as possible. The results of its first round were […]

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This image is a head shot of designer Naomi MacDougall, taken outside against a background of leafy trees. She wears shoulder-length brunette hair and is smiling slightly at the camera.
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Iva Cheung

What does your markup say about you?

Tuesday March 19, 2013

A friend of mine was venting to me about his old boss, who used to look over his reports. Whenever his boss found an error, he’d not only circle it but also emphasize his discovery with an exclamation point—a practice that drove my buddy nuts. Encoded within this tiny mark of punctuation was his micromanaging […]

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