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Jamie Banks

Maintaining Your Joy as a Copy Editor

Thursday January 15, 2026

In February, the academic editing book club will host author Jamaal D. Pittman for a 60-minute Q&A about The Copy Editor’s (Life)Style Guide: Maintaining Your Joy (and Sanity) in a Rapidly Changing Profession. This book club is run by the Academic Editing Special Interest Group(SIG), a collaboration of Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers Association […]

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Emily Distefano

Emily Distefano: What’s on My Desk?

Thursday January 29, 2026

Welcome to our new series where we snoop through the workspaces of our fellow editors. This week, Emily Distefano, the newest member of our proofreading team at The Editors’ Weekly, tells us all about her desk essentials. Tools of the trade First, the basics: computer, glasses, office supplies. My current laptop is a sturdy Lenovo […]

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Letitia Henville

A Case Study in Content Marketing

Thursday April 9, 2026

I’m a big believer in content marketing. Done well, content marketing can support both your own business and our shared profession, because it shows potential clients what editors do and the wealth of knowledge we hold. When I’ve spoken with other editors about content marketing, I regularly encounter misconceptions: some folks assume it means they […]

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Suzanne Schaan

The SME and Me: Navigating an Edit with a Subject Matter Expert

Thursday May 7, 2026

The first publishing company I worked for had an in-house newsletter that included photos from sales meetings, recipes, updates on the company baseball team (the Weasels) and random pieces on diverse topics. One of my contributions was titled something like, “How to impress at cocktail parties.” (Unfortunately, I can’t find the original; I hope the […]

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RJ McArthur

Templates as Generative for Creativity: Reading They Say / I Say

Thursday May 14, 2026

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein’s They Say / I Say aims “to demystify academic writing by isolating its basic moves, explaining them clearly and representing them in the form of templates.”  Overview Working from the assumption that “academic writing…calls on writers not simply to express their own ideas but to do so as a response […]

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