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Illustration of a paper document adorned with the Editors Canada caret logo emerging from a laptop screen. A red pencil highlights some lines meant to represent text on the page.
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Libby Graham

Editing Essentials: My Experience

Tuesday September 27, 2022

I’m a new editor, and over the course of the past year or so, I’ve been searching for any and every tool to help hone my skills and launch my career. One of those tools was the Editors Canada Editing Essentials qualification. I thought that speaking on my experience with the test could be beneficial […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Resumé Writing vs. Resumé Editing: What Do Resumé Writers Do?

Thursday January 19, 2023

I have worked in the career services industry as a resumé writer since 2014. In social media groups for editors, I sometimes see requests and advertisements for resumé editing services. Let’s review the difference between resumé writing and resumé editing and how you might become a resumé writer. Neither resumé editing nor resumé writing is […]

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The Editors Canada logo appears beside the logo for the 2023 Editors Canada conference: six stylized stick people in red, blue, black, and yellow, along with the text "in REAL LIFE / en VRAI."
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Suzanne Bowness

Less than 20 Sleeps until Editors Meet in Real Life

Thursday June 1, 2023

Who is ready for a great weekend in Toronto on June 17 and 18? If you plan to attend the Editors In Real Life conference (you read that right; we’re meeting in person!), you’ll be spending the two-day event at Toronto Metropolitan University. You’ll also be able to attend a day of pre-conference sessions hosted […]

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S. Robin Larin

Why I Chose to Join a Professional Editing Association

Thursday July 20, 2023

Like many freelance editors, I’m an independent introvert. I prefer a private working environment, forming my own definitions of my editing services and working alone to my own schedule (with regular reminders of break times by my feline editorial assistants). So you’d think I’d turn up my nose at the idea of any need to […]

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Fazeela Jiwa

The Radical Role of Developmental Editing

Thursday July 27, 2023

This post was adapted from a talk Fazeela Jiwa gave on acquisitions and developmental editing at The Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) this year. Writers bring the complex and embodied facets of their lives to their practice, and I approach my work as a developmental editor with this in mind. I understand editing as a […]

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Andrew Park

Is It Okay to Be an Editorial Generalist?

Thursday February 22, 2024

Beginning freelance editors are often advised to “niche down.” The advantages of picking and sticking to an editorial niche are promoted in terms of acquiring expertise in a particular area, pursuing subjects that are your passion or plugging into networks of discipline-specific clients. Acknowledged expertise in a particular niche may also enable you to command […]

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Across the top of the conference logo is a wavy banner. On the left side of the banner are documents with editing marks and a yellow highlighter, and on the right is an open laptop. The Editors Canada logo is below the banner, and across the bottom of the conference logo are the words "Editors Canada 2024 Conference | Conférence de Réviseurs Canada 2024, Present Progressive | Le Présent Progressif"
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Ceileigh Mangalam

Proceed to Editors 24: Present Progressive!

Thursday March 14, 2024

A reminder… The secret’s out! Canada’s premier editing conference will be taking place in just a few short months in beautiful Vancouver, B.C. If you’ve missed the emails, Facebook invites, billboards and pointed notes left on your doorstep, please consider this your official invitation. The conference will be held from June 21 to 23 at […]

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The cover of Editors Canada's Professional Editorial Standards 2024 features documents and a play button emerging from a laptop screen on a red background. Text reads: "Knowledge, skills and practices most commonly required for editing English-language material: The Fundamentals of Editing; Structural Editing; Stylistic Editing; Copy Editing; Proofreading"
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Adrienne Montgomerie

Crystal Clear: PES Unscramble the Publishing Puzzle!

Thursday April 25, 2024

In a field where being clear and consistent is everything, it’s surprisingly hard to get everyone on the same page about what any one role or stage in publishing involves. Enter the Professional Editorial Standards (PES)! Rather than getting bogged down in grammar rules, standards like this newly overhauled set are about the kinds of […]

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Jennie Seitz

The Effects of AI on Academic Editing

Thursday June 20, 2024

OpenAI announced on May 13, 2024, that their new model, ChatGPT-4o — which, at its highest level, now appears to be capable of conversations almost indiscernible from those with a human — is now being made available to all users for free (with limitations). Given that ChatGPT already has over 100 million users per week, […]

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