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Home Is Where the Bagel Is

Tuesday June 27, 2017

What do you mean when you say the word “home”? Amongst other definitions, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2nd ed.) defines “home” as “the place where one lives,” “a house or dwelling place” or “the place where a thing originates or is native or most common.” As someone with nomadic tendencies, these definitions have often clashed […]

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New knowledge is great, but international connections are priceless. Left to right: British editors Joanna Chisholm, Linsay MacLean and (in back) Lesley Ellen, U.S. editor Laura Poole (centre front) and Canadian editor Marion Soublière at Edinburgh’s historic Ensign Ewart Pub. Ellen, the mini-conference’s gracious and talented organizer, arranged for those still in Edinburgh post-conference to take part in the Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour, an evening of great fun. As tour-goers drifted between drinking establishments in Old and New Town, two skilled actors entertained with stories and antics — some in the musical Scots language of Robert Burns.

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A Measure of Editing Success

Tuesday August 1, 2017

The term “metrics” has become a bit of a business buzzword, especially for digital enterprises. It’s a trendy word for ways to quantifiably measure success such as tracking social media metrics (followers, click-through rates) or sales metrics (monthly numbers). As editors, though, we don’t have the same kinds of reliable metrics to help us measure […]

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Wasted Words: On the PC Front

Tuesday December 5, 2017

The Grey Cup eluded the Edmonton Eskimos again this year, but that’s not the worst of the team’s troubles: the political correctness refs want it to lose its name as well. The club chose its regrettable label in 1949, but it had been widely used by other Edmonton football squads for more than 50 years. […]

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Learning Baby Talk

Tuesday March 6, 2018

As editors, we rely more than most on our communication skills. Whether we’re conversing with clients, sharing knowledge within the editing community or sculpting a client’s words to help them shine their brightest, our communication skills impact the success of our work and relationships. Nearly all the time, we use these skills in tandem with […]

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Why Do So Many Teachers Become Editors?

Tuesday March 13, 2018

Someone recently asked me that question at a networking event. As an editor who came to this profession via a teaching career, I’d pondered this before, and wondered if and how my experience as a teacher shapes my approach as an editor. The Connection My teaching approach centred around two key beliefs, which I still […]

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Quick Topics: Books, Books, Books

Tuesday March 27, 2018

I love books. I love to read them, collect them, look at them, hold them, line them up on my shelves. In the old stories, mansions had conservatories, libraries and billiard rooms; I don’t need a mansion, but I do need a library. With a grand piano in the corner. It should also have a […]

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Standards at Work: Academic Editing

Tuesday April 24, 2018

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) describe the responsibilities of an editor. The scope of PES is broad; this series explores how the standards apply to a variety of editing contexts. I edit academic papers in preparation for submission to journals. My clients are researchers, and have usually settled the structure and content of their […]

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Review: Elements of Indigenous Style: A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples by Gregory Younging

Tuesday May 29, 2018

When I heard an Indigenous style guide was being published this year, I was excited by the opportunity to learn a framework for approaching the works of Indigenous authors. I am a non-Indigenous editor — a settler — and in recent years I have become very aware of my long-standing ignorance regarding the perspectives of […]

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A Promising New Editor

Tuesday June 12, 2018

Letitia Henville of Vancouver, B.C., is the recipient of the Editors Canada 2017 Claudette Upton Scholarship,* which recognizes promising emerging editors. The “promising” part of the description definitely applies to Letitia. The “emerging” part, not so much: she has hit the ground running. Like many editors, Letitia entered the profession in a roundabout way. In […]

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