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Tracey Anderson

Freeing Myself from the Freelancer Title

novembre 19, 2019 by Tracey Anderson | 15 commentaires sur Freeing Myself from the Freelancer Title

“Are you a freelancer?” My answer to that question has changed over the course of my career. When I first started editing, I edited learning modules for apprenticeship trades in house at a polytechnic institution. I also wrote freelance projects for newspapers and magazines during evenings and weekends. I loved writing, but it was not […]

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Tim Green

Sun Tzu and the Art of Words

novembre 12, 2019 by Tim Green | 4 commentaires sur Sun Tzu and the Art of Words

As editors and writers, we are all conscious of the need to consider our target audience. See Understanding My Reading Communities as an example. This requires self-awareness to avoid inflicting our own biases on our readers. If Sun Tzu had been an editor, he might have said, “Know your audience, know yourself. A hundred editing […]

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Aaron Dalton

Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

novembre 5, 2019 by Aaron Dalton | 5 commentaires sur Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

I’ve spent most of my career in-house. Currently I work with dozens of individual authors from all across the organization on a diverse array of document types. Though our editorial team works as a pool, a certain degree of specialization is unavoidable. We need to be able to record and share institutional knowledge amongst ourselves […]

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Brendan O’Brien

Editors’ Association of Earth has 10,000 members!

octobre 29, 2019 by Brendan O'Brien | Un commentaire sur Editors’ Association of Earth has 10,000 members!

Editors’ Association of Earth (EAE) is a Facebook group set up in February 2013 by Greg Ioannou and others, with the aim of fostering links between editors internationally. On Oct. 17, its membership reached 10,000. It’s a testament to editors around the world that EAE has become so successful. EAE has evolved in an organic […]

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Berna Ozunal

Letter to Non-Editors

octobre 22, 2019 by Berna Ozunal | 5 commentaires sur Letter to Non-Editors

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. A post will appear on the Editors’ Weekly every other month. If you’re interested in writing a post for this series, please email the Member Services Committee. After […]

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Marianne Grier

Editing and the Art of Ikea Furniture Building

octobre 15, 2019 by Marianne Grier | 4 commentaires sur Editing and the Art of Ikea Furniture Building

A recent move left my husband and me needing new furniture. Armed with an Ikea gift card, we chose some pieces online. Six flat-packs of furniture arrived a few weeks later, and we got cracking on assembly. As we pieced the furniture together slat by slat, dowel by dowel, I simultaneously felt we were making […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Mentors

octobre 8, 2019 by Rosemary Shipton | 8 commentaires sur Mentors

Throughout my career, I’ve been influenced by many mentors. When I was first hired right out of graduate school, Meredith, the experienced editor I was replacing, spent six weeks working alongside me introducing me to the principles, techniques and subtleties of editing both a scholarly journal and my first book manuscript. As we reorganized the […]

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Barbara McClintock General EAC

The Demise of a Dictionary: Is the Canadian Oxford Dictionary a Victim of its Own Success?

octobre 1, 2019 by Barbara McClintock | 5 commentaires sur The Demise of a Dictionary: Is the Canadian Oxford Dictionary a Victim of its Own Success?

The second and possibly last edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary was published in 2004. Why hasn't the Oxford University Press published a new edition in 15 years? There isn’t an up-to-date Canadian dictionary in print.

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Johanna Cider

Insurance for Freelance Editors: Everything You Need to Know

septembre 24, 2019 by Johanna Cider | Un commentaire sur Insurance for Freelance Editors: Everything You Need to Know

Have you ever wondered what types of insurance you should have as a freelancer? Besides basic insurances like life, health and auto, there are several types of insurance for small businesses and professional services that you might want to consider. These kinds of policies protect you from issues like client negligence. Home-based business insurance Planning […]

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James Harbeck

How to Write Gleefully

septembre 17, 2019 by James Harbeck | 2 commentaires sur How to Write Gleefully

There are times when you want to make your prose more lively — if not flagrantly flippant then at least glancingly gleeful. James Harbeck discusses how to do that.

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