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Libby Graham

Editing Essentials: My Experience

September 27, 2022 by Libby Graham | 4 Comments on Editing Essentials: My Experience

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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Merel Elsinga

The Editing Essentials Test Tested: Unlock Your Editing Career

April 5, 2022 by Merel Elsinga | 8 Comments on The Editing Essentials Test Tested: Unlock Your Editing Career

You have just embraced editing as your new career. You have some editing experience, just not the five years recommended to sign up for an Editors Canada certification test. How can you convince prospective clients or a potential employer that you do have editing skills? The certification steering committee has come up with a new […]

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Sandra Gravel

Un programme d’agrément en français : utile? | Why Do We Need French Certification?

May 19, 2015 by Sandra Gravel | 1 Comment on Un programme d’agrément en français : utile? | Why Do We Need French Certification?

Dans quelques semaines, le Programme d’agrément en révision linguistique – Réviseurs Canada fera son entrée dans le domaine des services langagiers francophones.  Pour le réviseur d’expérience ou pour celui ayant récemment joint le métier de la révision, le sentiment de compétence n’est pas nécessairement chose acquise, et le doute, la plupart du temps, habite son […]

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Abby Egerter

Six Volunteers Receive Honorary CPE Status

October 7, 2014 by Abby Egerter | 1 Comment on Six Volunteers Receive Honorary CPE Status

Back in the Wild West days of editing (about the late 1980s or so), there were no competency tests for editors and few if any educational programs designed to serve the needs of the publishing industry. Some members of the then Freelance Editors’ Association of Canada were looking for objective ways to demonstrate that editors […]

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