Search

Enter your keywords

Search results

Filed under:

Networking, Introverts and Squirrels

Tuesday January 21, 2020

I used to think I didn’t like networking because I detest small talk and won’t walk into a room of people all by myself. But a few conversations and experiences changed my mind. Connections A friend told me that I’m one of the best networkers she knows. This caught my attention, especially since this friend […]

Tagged

Filed under:

Aaron Dalton General EAC

Notes on Notes

Tuesday January 14, 2020

I had occasion recently to teach someone how to write effective editorial comments. It was an interesting exercise as it forced me to articulate principles I had absorbed over many years, some learned from painful experience. Here’s what came to mind: Know your place. My job is to help the author produce the best quality […]

Tagged

Aaron Dalton editing education editorial communication editorial jargon editorial notes editorial training effective editorial comments elements of editing sharing editorial knowledge

Editorial checklist. Hand holding clipboard with checklist and pencil. to-do list and planning project with office supplies. flat icon modern design style vector illustration concept.

Filed under:

Aaron Dalton

Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

Tuesday November 5, 2019

I’ve spent most of my career in-house. Currently I work with dozens of individual authors from all across the organization on a diverse array of document types. Though our editorial team works as a pool, a certain degree of specialization is unavoidable. We need to be able to record and share institutional knowledge amongst ourselves […]

Tagged

Aaron Dalton editing checklist editing software exclusion dictionary freelance editors in-house editor knowledge sharing line editing new editor non-editor proofreading structural editing style sheets technical writing

image of a woman having coffee with a man, who is reading a newspaper

Filed under:

Virginia St-Denis

Understanding My Reading Communities

Tuesday September 3, 2019

While the communities changed, the need to connect with newspaper, magazine, journal, and website readers remains. However, how that’s done has changed.

Tagged

audience reading target audience Virginia St-Denis

icon showing a pencil between two gears to represent engineering in-house editing

Filed under:

Jessica Coles

Alone at the Intersection of Editing and Engineering

Sunday August 11, 2019

This post is part of a new 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. […]

Tagged

author-editor relationship communication editing editor editor's role editors at work in-house editing in-house editor in-house editors in-house work Jessica Coles style writers

Filed under:

Anita Jenkins

Iva Cheung: Winner of the 2019 Karen Virag Award

Tuesday July 23, 2019

The annual Karen Virag Award recognizes exceptional efforts by an individual or organization to raise the profile of editing in their community. A highly accomplished member of Editors Canada, Virag died in 2014. Recipients to date are Nancy Flight, Virginia Durksen, James Harbeck and Iva Cheung. Editors Canada’s awards season always presents the judges with […]

Tagged

Anita Jenkins award profiles editor Iva Cheung Karen Virag Award

Filed under:

Aaron Dalton

Empirical Editors: Acronyms

Tuesday July 16, 2019

Background I’m an in-house editor for the Alberta Energy Regulator. Authors are required to work with our group as they move towards publishing their documents. It’s essential that we cultivate and nurture relationships of respect and trust. One element of that is always being able to rationalize and justify our recommendations. There’s no room for […]

Tagged

Aaron Dalton acronyms authors editing editors empirical research for editors readability writing

Illustration of a winding river snaking by trees and shrubs on its way to a cloudy mountain range in the background.

Filed under:

Christine Beevis Trickett

Even Nature Needs an Editor

Tuesday June 18, 2019

Tagged

Christine Beevis Trickett editorial coordinator editorial director editorial processes editorial services environmental charity in-house editing managing editor Nature Conservancy of Canada plain language editing translation writing

Filed under:

Marianne Grier

Comfort Zones

Tuesday November 14, 2017

This past August, the much-anticipated arrival of my Chicago Manual of Style v. 17 was overshadowed by the arrival of my first child. My due-in-September baby decided she was more Leo than Virgo, and made her appearance in the world a month early. Her little body wasn’t quite prepared for the outside world, and we […]

Tagged

client-editor relationship fear hospitals jargon Marianne Grier plain language

Filed under:

Anna Williams General EAC

Year in Review: The Best of 2016

Tuesday January 10, 2017

With another year behind us, we’d like to know what you liked best on the blog in 2016 and what you’d most like to see in the new year. Let us know in the comments! Here are some of our top picks: Should You Only “Edit What You Know?” by Sue Archer. Should we only […]

Tagged

Anna Williams Year in Review