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Seriously, What’s the Problem With Sentence Adverbs? | Linguistics, Frankly

Tuesday September 9, 2014

The English language is a very complex and powerful thing, capable of many nuances and quite resistant to simplistic attempts at tidying it up. Sadly, not everyone realizes that. Worse still, many people take very narrow and inconsistent views, focusing on pet peeves while letting parallel instances of usage pass unnoticed. It’s as though a […]

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Woman in Borneo jungle

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Four Guidelines for Editing Your Way Through the Corporate Jungle

Tuesday November 25, 2014

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be an editor. Unlike many of my editing colleagues who work in publishing, I ply my trade within a corporation. Although my official title is not “editor,” editing is a large part of what I do. I’ve worked for years in information technology, where […]

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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 […]

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Marion Soubliere

Perks of Being a Federal Supplier Aboard ProServices

Tuesday May 8, 2018

The Government of Canada is eager to buy from small businesses. My 2017 post Winning Contracts With the Government of Canada explained how to register as a supplier to this annual $15-billion to $20-billion market. How to Market Your Services to the Feds, meanwhile, suggested ways to continually keep your small firm top-of-mind with federal buyers. […]

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Christina Vasilevski

How Joining an Editorial Association Kickstarted My Career

Tuesday June 5, 2018

It’s 2008. After graduating from university the year before, I have a soul-sucking job with a company of dubious morals. However, it’s the Great Recession and beggars can’t be choosers. I feel stuck, sad and like I’m drowning. Maybe I should get back into writing, I think. Online, I find out about Ryerson University’s publishing […]

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Iva Cheung

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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 […]

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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.

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Editorial Comments

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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 […]

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Networking, introverts and squirrels

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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 […]

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Empirical Editors Bias

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Empirical Editors: Curse of Knowledge

Tuesday March 17, 2020

This article is part of a series that draws lessons from some of the research collected in Aaron Dalton’s “Empirical Research for Editors” list. Do you have the curse of knowledge? The “curse of knowledge” is a type of cognitive bias where someone unknowingly assumes, while communicating, that their audience has the same background knowledge […]

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