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Suzanne Bowness

Learnings from LinkedIn: Optimize for Success

octobre 27, 2020 by Suzanne Bowness | Un commentaire sur Learnings from LinkedIn: Optimize for Success

As I write this, I’m in the midst of marking 80 LinkedIn profiles. You read that right: in both of my online writing courses this term, I’ve assigned LinkedIn profiles as task number one. That’s how important I think they are to students embarking on a new career path. Part public resumé, part networking channel, […]

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Sangeeta Mehta

More Online Diversity-Focused Writers’ Events to Attend This Fall

octobre 20, 2020 by Sangeeta Mehta

Over the summer, when many writers’ events were cancelled due to the pandemic, I was heartened to learn that a few created for writers from marginalized backgrounds continued as planned, but online. Here is the brief list I had compiled of events to attend over the summer and fall. I later found out about several […]

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Marianne Grier

The Times They Are A-Changin’

octobre 13, 2020 by Marianne Grier | 2 commentaires sur The Times They Are A-Changin’

My parents recently sold our family home. Perched on a hill in a small Nova Scotia town, the house was the backdrop to my childhood and school years. While I hadn’t lived there for ages, it was the place I always went back to. I could navigate my way in the dark, identify family members’ […]

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Aaron Dalton

Learning from History

octobre 6, 2020 by Aaron Dalton | 4 commentaires sur Learning from History

This post is part of a 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. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the Member Services Committee. One of the reasons our species has flourished is that […]

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Jasmine Peteran

The New Networking Reality for Students

septembre 29, 2020 by Jasmine Peteran

For students trying to establish themselves as freelance editors, networking is key to success. Now that the fall semester has started, students are dreading the anticipated lack of opportunities with this new post-secondary experience. Networking is central to nearly every professional field, but especially true for those of us who work primarily as freelancers. As […]

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Louise Harnby

Listen Up! The Opportunity in Audio

septembre 22, 2020 by Louise Harnby | 2 commentaires sur Listen Up! The Opportunity in Audio

Audio content has never been more popular. Publishers recognize this; so do independent authors. Here’s a list of tips and tools for freelance editors who’d like to introduce audio content into their business workflow and amplify their editorial voices — literally! 5 advantages of audio Audio takes up less bandwidth than video. It’s therefore more […]

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Ilana Reimer

Editing Young Writers

septembre 15, 2020 by Ilana Reimer | 2 commentaires sur Editing Young Writers

Sometime before I turned 10, my parents “published” my first story at Staples. When I held this spiral-bound, laminated book with my own words and illustrations inside, I felt like an author. Looking back on my progress as a writer, I see my journey dotted with people who believed in me. They pushed me to […]

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Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

septembre 8, 2020 by Erin Brenner | 2 commentaires sur Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Erin Brenner is an author and an award-winning copywriter who has been running her own business, Right Touch Editing, for more than a decade. Her company specializes in business publishing and indie books related to marketing and […]

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Anita Jenkins

Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

septembre 1, 2020 by Anita Jenkins | 11 commentaires sur Do Freelance Editors Know How to Work at Home?

Many thousands of office employees who were forced to work from home because of COVID-19 will continue to do so. Only 36 per cent of Canadians anticipate returning to their “place of work” when the pandemic subsides, according to an Angus Reid study. Freelance editors have been working from home for years and, by and […]

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Gael Spivak

Grammar Matters

août 25, 2020 by Gael Spivak | 8 commentaires sur Grammar Matters

Antecedents and gerunds. En dashes and ellipses. Gripping topics for editors, right? Well, it turns out they’re not gripping for all of us. As one of the admins for the Editors’ Association of Earth groups on Facebook, I read almost every post and comment (one group alone had 310 posts and 5,611 comments in a […]

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