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Long-haired person smiling and pointing at a date on a calendar where various date squares have been filled in or marked with an X.
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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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RJ McArthur

Templates as Generative for Creativity: Reading They Say / I Say

Thursday May 14, 2026

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s They Say / I Say aims “to demystify academic writing by isolating its basic moves, explaining them clearly and representing them in the form of templates.”  Overview Working from the assumption that “academic writing…calls on writers not simply to express their own ideas but to do so as a response […]

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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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