Filed under: Wilf Popoff WASTED WORDS: My Hit List Tuesday February 5, 2013 I have a dream: English users create their equivalent to the Académie Française to mind the language. I’m at the first hearing of this august body presenting a list of... Read more Tagged Taggededitingredundanciesusage
Filed under: Shane Mulligan Why Academic Editors Should Read Thing Explainer Thursday September 4, 2025 ...language and not many pictures. So it was a treat to review Randall Munroe’s Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words, which is unlike any book I’ve read in a... Read more Tagged Taggedacademic editingpublishingShane Mulligan
Filed under: About the Blog The Editors’ Weekly is the official English-language blog of Editors Canada. Editors Canada promotes professional editing for print and online communications. Our members include salaried and freelance editors who work... Read more Tagged
Filed under: Zanne Klingenberg Get to Know Your New Blog Team: Zanne Klingenberg Thursday August 28, 2025 ...that’s proofreading an educational board game or evaluating a manuscript. I also love the collaborative nature of language and communication. It’s thrilling to be part of creative processes and work... Read more Tagged Taggedblog managementeditorial teamZanne Klingenberg
Filed under: Karen Virag GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Grammar Class Wars Tuesday December 18, 2012 ...grammar is the field of linguistics that covers the conventions of a language; it involves morphology and syntax, phonetics, phonology, semantics and pragmatics. Still scratching your head? Here is a... Read more Tagged TaggedCBC RadiodescriptivismeditinggrammarGrammar Gals
Filed under: Kaitlin Littlechild Editing With the Seasons: Indigenous Storytelling and the Rhythm of the Land Thursday December 11, 2025 ...are shaped by land, language, kinship and the cycles of the natural world. There is a time and a place for certain stories. To authentically and respectfully edit Indigenous writing... Read more Tagged TaggedIndigenous writersKaitlin Littlechildstorytelling
Filed under: Wilf Popoff WASTED WORDS: The Editor as Analyst Saturday November 24, 2012 Wasted Words is a series of musings on language and usage by editor emeritus Wilf Popoff. I find it hard to edit without playing amateur psychologist. Why did the writer... Read more Tagged Taggededitingtautologyusageverbosity
Filed under: Melva McLean LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema Tuesday December 4, 2012 ...a couple in a 1972 wedding scene have their first dance to Paul Stookey’s Wedding Song (There is Love) because it was written by then (yes)? Is the language in... Read more Tagged Taggedcontinuityeditingeditoreditors at workfilmscript supervisortypes of editing
Filed under: Aalap Trivedi Get to Know Your New Blog Team: Aalap Trivedi Thursday August 14, 2025 ...the same text through different lens (that is, once for grammar, once for language and word choice, once for overall logic and flow within the document). Most challenging: Being mostly... Read more Tagged TaggedAalap Trivediblog managementeditorial team
Filed under: Jamie Banks Maintaining Your Joy as a Copy Editor Thursday January 15, 2026 ...any rulebook could, by reiterating that copy editing goes beyond commas and correctness. It’s about people and the sometimes imperfect, emotional reality of making language work. A key theme is... Read more Tagged TaggedAcademic Book ClubCopy editorsJamie Banks
