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Special Feature: Keep Busy While Self-Isolating

Thursday March 26, 2020

Is self-isolation and social distancing taking a toll? Here is a list of ideas to keep you busy: Creative Writing Stretch those creative muscles! Get inspired with some writing prompts below: The Writer’s Digest The Write Practice New York Times Online Libraries Libraries already have vast online resources, and many of them are extending due […]

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Barbara McClintock

The Language of Political Commentary: From Nadir to Zenith

Tuesday April 28, 2020

Jean-Paul Sartre, author of Huis Clos, wrote L’enfer, c’est les autres (Hell is other people). Maybe that’s true in a pandemic. However, in this period of social distancing and self-isolation, we still have the luxury of reading. In particular, I’m rereading the excellent book titled The Mother Tongue – English and How It Got That […]

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Suzanne Bowness

Learnings from LinkedIn: Optimize for Success

Tuesday October 27, 2020

As I write this, I’m in the midst of marking 80 LinkedIn profiles. You read that right: in both of my online writing courses this term, I’ve assigned LinkedIn profiles as task number one. That’s how important I think they are to students embarking on a new career path. Part public resumé, part networking channel, […]

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Aaron Dalton

Wildcards and Regular Expressions

Tuesday November 10, 2020

Recently, I’ve seen some problems involving global text edits that were easily solved with Microsoft Word’s Advanced Find and Replace feature. Spending some time learning the ins and outs of this feature will more than pay off when you’re able to do something in minutes that would take you hours to do manually. Find and […]

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Barbara McClintock

Sex, Gender and Pronouns: Using the Correct Pronouns for Inclusiveness

Tuesday November 17, 2020

In the U.S. presidential election this month, the first openly transgender woman, Sarah McBride, won a seat in the Delaware State Senate. It’s a milestone for diversity and one that has an impact on our work as writers and editors. Striving to ensure the equality of men and women in professional writing is not new […]

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Marianne Grier

A Day in the Life of a Communications Manager: Marianne Grier

Tuesday June 1, 2021

Writing and editing career paths can take many directions. In this new “day-in-the-life” series, experienced professionals share their personal experiences and various roles related to writing, editing and communications. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email The Editors’ Weekly. What is your job? I’m an operations manager for communication and […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Maxie Bai Martin

Tuesday January 18, 2022

The Editors Canada student relations committee completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview with […]

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Lucy Payette

Back-to-School Season: Of Food, Cocktails and Conversation

Thursday September 8, 2022

Now that it’s September, many editors may be daydreaming of going back to school — especially as some in-class learning resumes. Here’s a smattering of online and in-person professional development opportunities available this fall: Niche editing Last April Judy Phillips wrote about what recipe editors do. The fall harvest season may inspire you to take […]

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Cathy McPhalen

A New Gathering Place for Academic Editors

Tuesday September 20, 2022

Editors Canada is launching a special interest group for freelance and in-house editors who work with academic clients: individual researchers, universities, students or academic journals and publishers. The vision for this virtual group is to provide a space to discuss themes and share information around editing in academic realms. Our academic clients need editors more […]

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Wayne Jones

Searching the Oxford Reference Collection

Tuesday October 11, 2022

I’m a minimalist in almost all aspects of my life. The decor of my condo is spare. It’s not polished concrete like you see in those gigantic open-concept loft apartments that have been converted from warehouse spaces (though frankly I see the appeal). I generally don’t keep things unless I need them or unless they […]

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