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Brendan O’Brien

Winning in the Freelance Game

Tuesday November 13, 2018

Being a freelancer is hard. When clients don’t have work for you, you cease to exist for them even though your livelihood depends on them or on people like them. You need to be a team player, but often you will be dropped from the team abruptly when a project ends. This demands resilience. Here […]

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My brain hurts! (Or I’ve been proofreading from right to left!)

Tuesday December 4, 2018

This post is part of a new series of case studies by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on the personal experiences and various roles of in-house editors. A post will appear on the Editors’ Weekly every other month. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the […]

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Wasted Words: The Torments of Editing

Tuesday March 19, 2019

When I began writing this article I knew, like most of you, that editing is an unhealthy occupation. It’s so fraught with hazards it’s a wonder anyone will sell us health or life insurance. We sit long hours, our work is mentally taxing, we stare at monitors, our physical effort amounts to repetitive flexing of […]

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Retirement Opportunities

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Rosemary Shipton

To Retire — or Not?

Tuesday January 7, 2020

Ever since compulsory staff retirement at 65 ended in Canada, the decision of whether to leave their profession voluntarily has become a conundrum for many people. Some continue working because they need the money, but for others it’s optional. The only people I know who retire “early” are teachers, civil servants and others who contributed […]

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Asking for Help: Lessons from Toddlerhood

Tuesday March 3, 2020

My two-and-a-half-year-old daughter has been asking for help since the day she was born. She first expressed herself, as babies do, with simple cries that left much to interpretation. Her expressions progressed from “Help!” to “Mama, please could you help me with ___.” While she clearly values doing certain things by herself, she has never […]

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Covid-19 Life

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My COVID-19 Life Edit

Tuesday May 19, 2020

Since COVID-19 came to B.C., I’ve gone through an involuntary life edit. Things have proceeded like any full edit (though let’s skip the proofread for now, shall we?). The first changes were sweeping, dramatic and structural as we paused daycare, moved to working mostly from home and navigating meetings around a toddler, and stopped frequenting […]

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Jasmine Peteran

The New Networking Reality for Students

Tuesday September 29, 2020

For students trying to establish themselves as freelance editors, networking is key to success. Now that the fall semester has started, students are dreading the anticipated lack of opportunities with this new post-secondary experience. Networking is central to nearly every professional field, but especially true for those of us who work primarily as freelancers. As […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Linguistic Interference During COVID-19

Tuesday November 3, 2020

This post is part of a series on some of the challenges English editors and translators encounter when working with French texts. When the COVID-19 pandemic oozed into Canadian territory in March, government officials and media outlets across the country were working hard to keep society apprised of the latest developments. These included physical-distancing rules, […]

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Zen and the Art of Editing

Tuesday May 11, 2021

This post is part of a series by and for in-house editors. The focus of this series is on the personal experiences and various roles of in-house editors. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the Member Services Committee. I’m a punctilious person. I care about the details. I care […]

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What Is Plain Language? Part 1: A Definition

Tuesday June 22, 2021

This is the first in a series of articles discussing the basic principles of plain language that I’ve found successful in my teaching. These principles may not be new to my fellow editors. Perhaps some material here will be useful in your own educational efforts. My experience is with non-fiction, mostly technical, writing. I would […]

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