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Standards Communication Task Force

Standards at Work: Memoir Editing

Tuesday July 3, 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. Paula Sarson, an Atlantic Canadian editor and proofreader of fiction and nonfiction, has worked on several award-winning titles during her career. I interviewed her […]

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Heidi Waechtler

On Community and Citizenship: How the Claudette Upton Scholarship Helped Bring My Career Into Focus

Tuesday August 7, 2018

I received the Claudette Upton Scholarship* in 2012 at a critical point in my career path: I was nearing the completion of my Master of Publishing coursework at Simon Fraser University and preparing to move from Vancouver to Toronto to take on a summer editorial internship at McClelland & Stewart. Looking back, six years later, […]

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Virginia Durksen

Interview With Dr. Suzanne M. Steele

Tuesday September 4, 2018

Part 1: Dr. Suzanne M. Steele, scholar and editor Dr. Suzanne Steele has built her career on words as a librarian, a war poet, a librettist, a teacher and an academic editor working with ESL writers who are often translating their ideas across cultures as well as languages. Virginia Durksen is the editor for Suzanne’s […]

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Standards at Work: Fiction Editing

Tuesday October 2, 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. Karen Conlin is a freelance editor specializing in speculative fiction and young adult fiction (YA). She does structural, stylistic and copy editing, mostly for […]

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Standards at Work: Technical Editing

Tuesday November 20, 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. Ellen Lupu has been a technical editor for 12 years. Her current project involves writing and editing training material for an oil and gas […]

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Happy Holidays and Year in Review

Tuesday December 18, 2018

It’s time for our Year in Review! Check out our list of posts from 2018 and tell us your favourites in the comments. Have you ever thought of writing an article for the Editors’ Weekly? We’re looking for articles on the following topics: How you got started as an editor Events you’ve attended, such as […]

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Vocation, Avocation: Margery Fee and Canadian Usage

Tuesday July 9, 2019

We editors have our own celebrities. At the March meeting of Editors BC, which featured Stefan Dollinger, editor-in-chief of the DCHP-2 (A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, second edition), a name on the guest list caught my eye. Could it be? Really? It was. In the audience was Margery Fee, associate editor of the […]

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Letter to Non-Editors

Tuesday October 22, 2019

This post is part of a 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 Member Services Committee. After […]

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Job Application Process for Freelancers

Tuesday February 25, 2020

“Freelancing In America,” a study of the independent workforce, is now in its seventh year. While it doesn’t offer statistics about editors, the 2019 report confirms that 50 per cent of freelancers (57 million workers) consider it a long-term career. As freelance editors, we are aware of competition, industry and technology trends in our target […]

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Making the Shift from Student to Freelance Editor

Tuesday March 31, 2020

For novice editors, the transitional year from student to editor is often both remarkable and overwhelming. No amount of experience and education can prepare you for the phenomenon of imposter syndrome, the tendency to undervalue your work, and the persistent fear of failure. Above all, nothing quite prepares you for that first difficult client. Although […]

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