Tag: editing

A woman is carrying a huge stack of hardcover books. She is standing in front of an institutional green brick wall on which there is a clock that says 3 o’clock.
Filed under:

Kate Icely

DISPATCHES from an Editorial Intern

March 5, 2013 by Kate Icely | 10 Comments on DISPATCHES from an Editorial Intern

Outside Looking In I decided I wanted to go into publishing in early 2011. It was a good solution to my problems at the time. Problems like why I didn’t want to fill out arduous grad school applications and why I wouldn’t apply to law school (as members of my family fervently hoped I would). […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

An attractive, long-haired blond woman looks straight at the camera, holding up a magnifying glass in front of her right eye, making that eye appear extremely large within the frame of the magnifying glass.
Filed under:

Anita Jenkins

What’s an editor to do?

February 19, 2013 by Anita Jenkins | 4 Comments on What’s an editor to do?

Virginia Durksen recently stated in her blog post The Inner Editor: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice that an editor must “respect the writer’s voice and suggest only those changes that serve the writer first, and then the writer’s reader.” Certainly I agree; it’s a big mistake to indiscriminately apply a standardized style so firmly […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Head portrait of Irish satirist and author Jonathan Swift, best known as the author of Gulliver’s Travels.
Filed under:

Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: I are confused

February 12, 2013 by Karen Virag | 1 Comment on GETTABLE GRAMMAR: I are confused

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. I ARE CONFUSED, AREN’T I? Have you ever wondered why we say, “He is, isn’t he?” and “She is, isn’t she?” but we don’t say “I am, amn’t I?” (though you might say this if you lived in certain parts of […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

A two-story house is burning, filled with flames that are coming out through the front porch, upstairs windows, and through the roof. Four firemen in gear, with their backs to us, are standing in the foreground, watching the fire.
Filed under:

Wilf Popoff

WASTED WORDS: My hit list

February 5, 2013 by Wilf Popoff | 2 Comments on WASTED WORDS: My hit list

I have a dream: English users create their equivalent to the Académie Française to mind the language. I’m at the first hearing of this august body presenting a list of words I want banned. The English Academy must acquiesce if the language is to be saved. First up is the noun process. I recognize that this […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Close up of a section of bookshelf lined with books, spines facing in. The “exposed” pages are facing out and an old letterpress ampersand sits on top of the books, facing the viewer, as if to ask the question, “And….?”
Filed under:

Nancy Flight

Are Book Editors an Endangered Species?

January 29, 2013 by Nancy Flight | 4 Comments on Are Book Editors an Endangered Species?

In  December 2012, the world was supposed to end, the U.S. was expected to fall off the so-called fiscal cliff, and some commentators had already pronounced Canadian publishing dead or nearly so. As we know, the world did not end, and the U.S. has avoided plunging over the fiscal cliff, at least for the time […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Close-up shot of a woman's hand, holding a pen, resting on an open book, suggesting that she is studying.
Filed under:

Kristina Lundberg

Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

January 22, 2013 by Kristina Lundberg | 4 Comments on Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

Every fall I struggle with the professional development plan I’m required to submit to my employer. My first decade in editing was brimming with formal and informal professional development, and my professional growth was steep. Fourteen years into my career, how can I rise above the PD plateau and continue to grow? Of course, in editing there’s […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

An image of the head of an older woman, thoughtfully stroking her chin.
Filed under:

Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Less is More

January 15, 2013 by Karen Virag | Leave a Comment

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. LESS IS MORE, NOT FEWER. EXCEPT SOMETIMES. The question of when to use fewer and when to use less perplexes many people. Generally speaking, you should use fewer to refer to a smaller number and less to refer to a smaller […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

A close-up shot in a field of red poppies and poppy pods. A bee balances gingerly on the petal of one of them.
Filed under:

Virginia Durksen

THE INNER EDITOR: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice

January 8, 2013 by Virginia Durksen | 1 Comment on THE INNER EDITOR: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice

  As a young reader, I liked writers who tactfully addressed the “gentle reader.” Perhaps I enjoyed the ironic wink suggesting that writer and reader are both in on creating the story. Indirectly or directly, good writers invite the reader to trust the unfolding tale, just as they find a way to signal their trust […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Balloon captions in white on a grey background with lots of slang text such as "Now I'm really ticked," and "Huh?" and "I'm stuck," etc.
Filed under:

Victoria Neufeldt

New Words

January 2, 2013 by Victoria Neufeldt | 2 Comments on New Words

The end of a year brings thoughts of old and new words—and not only to us word birds, who throughout the year are tuned into what’s coming in and what’s fading out. It’s generally easier to recognize the new than the obsolescent. New words and meanings can virtually explode onto the linguistic scene. Such terms usually relate […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Workman on a roof
Filed under:

Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Grammar class wars

December 18, 2012 by Karen Virag | 2 Comments on GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Grammar class wars

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. GRAMMAR CLASS WARS Grammar. If it’s not your gramper’s wife, what the heck is it? Well, grammar is the field of linguistics that covers the conventions of a language; it involves morphology and syntax, phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics. Still scratching […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Close-up shot of the dictionary definition for "editor," with a pencil resting across part of the text.
Filed under:

Rosemary Shipton

A Changing Role for Editors

December 12, 2012 by Rosemary Shipton | 3 Comments on A Changing Role for Editors

It’s not all that long ago that editors were invisible or, if their presence was recognized, dismissed as nitpickers or as dangerous meddlers in the creative writing process. “Let’s Kill All the Copyeditors,” ran one newspaper headline. Renowned professor Jacques Barzun railed against the errors that “tone deaf” editors introduced to his texts in his […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Filmstrip negatives overlaid upon a background script whose text is too obscured to read.
Filed under:

Melva McLean

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema

December 4, 2012 by Melva McLean | Leave a Comment

(The first in a series on working as an editor in the film industry.) In 1966, my older sister snuck me into the Windsor Theatre to see an R-rated movie, A Man and Woman, starring Anouk Aimée as a script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a car racer. After that, whenever someone asked me what […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

An array of typeface letters, in brown and grey tones.
Filed under:

Wilf Popoff

WASTED WORDS: The editor as analyst

November 24, 2012 by Wilf Popoff | Leave a Comment

Wasted Words is a series of musings on language and usage by editor emeritus Wilf Popoff. I find it hard to edit without playing amateur psychologist. Why did the writer do this? Carelessness? Ignorance? Of course it can be either. Compared to editors writers are not as alert, which is why they need us. But […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

Filed under:

Susan Bond

Starting the Conversation

November 20, 2012 by Susan Bond | Leave a Comment

Welcome to The Editors’ Weekly, official blog of the Editors’ Association of Canada/Association canadienne des réviseurs (EAC/ACR). The EAC promotes professional editing for print and online communications. Our 1,600 members include salaried and freelance editors who work in the corporate, technical, government, not-for-profit, education and publishing sectors. Authors contributing to this blog will include many recognized […]

Read more »

Tagged

Tagged

To top