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James Harbeck

The Performance of a Text

juin 23, 2020 by James Harbeck | 3 commentaires sur The Performance of a Text

If someone says, “How about some music,” and you say, “Sure — Beethoven’s Fifth?” do you think they’ll be happy if you just hand them a printed copy of the score? A musical score is intended to be performed, and you don’t have a performance without musicians, a conductor, and the stage and lighting crew. […]

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Tanya Mykhaylychenko

Editorial Cover Letters

juin 16, 2020 by Tanya Mykhaylychenko | 6 commentaires sur Editorial Cover Letters

When you apply online as an editor or initiate contact with potential employers through cold emails, your ability to draft a crisp and engaging cover letter comes in handy. While your resumé informs your reader about your career history and specific projects you worked on, a cover letter aims to persuade. In a cover letter, […]

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Aaron Dalton

Empirical Editors: Fluency

juin 9, 2020 by Aaron Dalton | 4 commentaires sur Empirical Editors: Fluency

This article is part of a series that looks at lessons one can draw from some of the research collected in Aaron Dalton’s “Empirical Research for Editors” list.  “Fluency” refers to how easy or difficult it is to do or process something. I interpret the science in this area through the lens of plain language, […]

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Jasmine Peteran

Transitioning Between the Home and the Home Office

juin 2, 2020 by Jasmine Peteran | 4 commentaires sur Transitioning Between the Home and the Home Office

Amid all the Zoom calls and email threads, I sit in my makeshift home office staring at the dust collecting on the windowsill. We’ve entered into uncharted territory, yet every day looks the same. I started my career with a love of language, of words and of writing, but over the last few weeks these […]

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Carla DeSantis

Reading on a Deadline

mai 26, 2020 by Carla DeSantis | 19 commentaires sur Reading on a Deadline

I still yearn for my Summer of Reading. It was the summer after grade 8 — that awkward age when you are too young for a job, too old for some camps — and I had the now-longed-for luxury of time. I consumed a large number of books — some classics, some popular YA choices. […]

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General EAC Marianne Grier

My COVID-19 Life Edit

mai 19, 2020 by Marianne Grier | 11 commentaires sur My COVID-19 Life Edit

Since COVID-19 came to B.C., I’ve gone through an involuntary life edit. Things have proceeded like any full edit (though let’s skip the proofread for now, shall we?). The first changes were sweeping, dramatic and structural as we paused daycare, moved to working mostly from home and navigating meetings around a toddler, and stopped frequenting […]

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Virginia St-Denis

Career Builder: An Action Plan for New Editors

mai 12, 2020 by Virginia St-Denis | 2 commentaires sur Career Builder: An Action Plan for New Editors

A new free resource is available to help you build your new editing career. Experienced editors can use it for giving advice to would-be editors. Launching a successful career just became a little easier for would-be editors, students and novice editors. The Career Builder provides valuable information to guide you through creating your personalized action […]

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Gael Spivak

Gael Spivak: An Editor’s Top 3

mai 5, 2020 by Gael Spivak

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Gael Spivak works in communications for the Government of Canada, where she specializes in plain language writing and editing. An editor for 13 years, Gael has worked on topics that include food safety and food labelling, biotechnology, […]

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Barbara McClintock

The Language of Political Commentary: From Nadir to Zenith

avril 28, 2020 by Barbara McClintock | 2 commentaires sur The Language of Political Commentary: From Nadir to Zenith

Jean-Paul Sartre, author of Huis Clos, wrote L’enfer, c’est les autres (Hell is other people). Maybe that’s true in a pandemic. However, in this period of social distancing and self-isolation, we still have the luxury of reading. In particular, I’m rereading the excellent book titled The Mother Tongue – English and How It Got That […]

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Sue Archer

Diversity in Publishing: An Interview with Sangeeta Mehta

avril 21, 2020 by Sue Archer | 2 commentaires sur Diversity in Publishing: An Interview with Sangeeta Mehta

This week, the Editors’ Weekly is holding a conversation with Sangeeta Mehta on the current state of diversity in publishing and how editors can be leaders in the fight for inclusion. About Sangeeta Sangeeta Mehta has worked in the book publishing field since the late 1990s. She has been an acquiring editor at both Little, […]

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