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Lucy Payette

January Is Mentoring Month: How Are We Doing?

janvier 25, 2022 by Lucy Payette | 4 commentaires sur January Is Mentoring Month: How Are We Doing?

In a nod to mentoring month, a movement formally recognized in the U.S. and gaining traction in Canada, let’s reflect on mentoring in the editing industry. Much has been written about mentoring in The Editors’ Weekly over the years, including the most recent post by Jennifer D. Foster on the benefits of mentorship, stories of […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Maxie Bai Martin

janvier 18, 2022 by Becky Heaman

The Editors Canada student relations committee completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview with […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Editing in the Time of Covid

janvier 11, 2022 by Rosemary Shipton | 8 commentaires sur Editing in the Time of Covid

As we enter 2022, it’s time to ask how editors have fared during the pandemic and what lies ahead. When the world as we knew it suddenly shut down in March 2020, we feared for our health and our livelihoods, uncertain what might transpire. How have we done? For most editors, it seems, work continued […]

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Lucy Payette

Searching for the Positive Side of Change

Décembre 21, 2021 by Lucy Payette | 2 commentaires sur Searching for the Positive Side of Change

Many of my conversations of late have started with “I would have thought by now we would be … ” or “I’m not sure what the next few months will bring ….” This past year has been called many things: the Great Resignation, the Great Reshuffle, the second year of COVID. Whatever you call this […]

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Becky Heaman

Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Iva Cheung

Décembre 14, 2021 by Becky Heaman | Un commentaire sur Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Iva Cheung

The Editors Canada student relations committee completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, Becky Heaman shared the committee’s interview […]

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Amanda Goldrick-Jones

The Student Affiliate Book Club Gets Subversive

Décembre 7, 2021 by Amanda Goldrick-Jones

The brand-new student affiliate book club chose Carol Fisher Saller’s The Subversive Copy Editor (2nd edition, 2016) as its first book for discussion. We were intensely curious — especially those in the club who are early-career editors — about what “subversive” editing meant. In October, we met online to review “Part 1: Working with the […]

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Support for Editing and Publishing on Giving Tuesday

novembre 30, 2021 by admin

Written with files from Zofia Laubitz, Editors Canada awards coordinator. Today is Giving Tuesday. Described as the “opening day of the giving season,” it is a time when charities, companies and individuals rally for their favourite causes. It’s a perfect time to consider supporting the editing community. Ways to support the editing community Support editors […]

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Jennifer D. Foster

The Benefits of Mentorship

novembre 23, 2021 by Jennifer D. Foster

Being a freelance editor and writer is — more often than not — a solo experience, and participating in mentorships can help ease the sense of isolation many of us experience. That’s one of the reasons I became a mentor a decade ago. I’ve been mentoring novice and/or transitioning editors via Editors Canada since 2012, […]

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Aaron Dalton

What is Plain Language? Part 4: Craftsmanship

novembre 16, 2021 by Aaron Dalton | Un commentaire sur What is Plain Language? Part 4: Craftsmanship

This is the fourth in a series of articles discussing the basic principles of plain language by Aaron Dalton. Most of the writing that happens in an office is stream-of-consciousness. We fire off dozens of quick emails and texts a day with little thought. But the writing we do for external readers requires more care. Effective writing […]

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Ask an Award Winner: An Interview with Cathy McPhalen

novembre 9, 2021 by S. Robin Larin

The Editors Canada student relations committee recently completed a series of interviews with Editors Canada award winners. Each month, we’ll bring you the highlights of our interviews in the hopes that those featured may inspire student editors beginning their careers, as well as editors who are already established. This month, S. Robin Larin shares the […]

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