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Letitia Henville

More Twitter for Wordies

septembre 18, 2018 by Letitia Henville | 6 commentaires sur More Twitter for Wordies

A little over two years ago, Lori Burwash sang the praises of Twitter as “a forum where communication must be clear, engaging and concise” — and so of obvious appeal to editors. Since June 2016, Twitter has grown in the public consciousness, with some now seeing it as an echo chamber where extremist political takes […]

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James Harbeck

Eye Rhymes and iRhymes

septembre 11, 2018 by James Harbeck

Or: Can You Rhyme Emoji? An eye rhyme is when two words that only look like they rhyme are used for a rhyme. This was an early annoyance from my childhood, when elementary poems rhymed good with food. Another famous one is from Shakespeare: If this be error and upon me prov’d I never writ, […]

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Virginia Durksen

Interview With Dr. Suzanne M. Steele

septembre 4, 2018 by Virginia Durksen | 9 commentaires sur Interview With Dr. Suzanne M. Steele

Part 1: Dr. Suzanne M. Steele, scholar and editor Dr. Suzanne Steele has built her career on words as a librarian, a war poet, a librettist, a teacher and an academic editor working with ESL writers who are often translating their ideas across cultures as well as languages. Virginia Durksen is the editor for Suzanne’s […]

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Trish Morgan

Lifelong Learning for Mentors and Mentees

août 28, 2018 by Trish Morgan | 6 commentaires sur Lifelong Learning for Mentors and Mentees

Editors Canada launched the John Eerkes-Medrano Mentorship Program in the spring of 2017. For information about how you can become a mentor or a mentee, click here. Let’s begin with three playful suppositions. First, the best kinds of editing involve learning. Second, the best editors have learned from mentors. Third, the best mentors keep on learning. […]

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Brendan O’Brien

Is It All About the Author?

août 21, 2018 by Brendan O'Brien | 23 commentaires sur Is It All About the Author?

The prevailing orthodoxy in online editors’ groups, I have noticed, is one of huge respect for, and empathy with, the author. The author is king/queen. We, as editors, primarily serve the author’s vision, the author’s voice. However, in my own work (both in-house and freelance, primarily as a copyeditor of non-fiction), the emphasis has generally […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: A Paean to Poetry

août 14, 2018 by Wilf Popoff | 3 commentaires sur Wasted Words: A Paean to Poetry

Good poetry, I believe, projects the essence of culture. It conveys profound concepts and articulates observations while captivating the listener with its beauty and power. It does this with a matchless performance of words that blend language with wisdom. The listener is both enlightened and entertained. Bad poetry, on the other hand, has little effect […]

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Heidi Waechtler

On Community and Citizenship: How the Claudette Upton Scholarship Helped Bring My Career Into Focus

août 7, 2018 by Heidi Waechtler | 4 commentaires sur On Community and Citizenship: How the Claudette Upton Scholarship Helped Bring My Career Into Focus

I received the Claudette Upton Scholarship* in 2012 at a critical point in my career path: I was nearing the completion of my Master of Publishing coursework at Simon Fraser University and preparing to move from Vancouver to Toronto to take on a summer editorial internship at McClelland & Stewart. Looking back, six years later, […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Proofreading Bilingual Documents

juillet 31, 2018 by Dwain Richardson | Un commentaire sur English Editing in Quebec: Proofreading Bilingual Documents

For most of us, it is easy to proof documents written in one language. Copy editors and proofreaders are familiar with flow, style and grammatical rules as they pertain to their mother tongues. But what happens when working with a bilingual or multilingual document? How do you ensure consistency, especially when the standards of one […]

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Marianne Grier

Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

juillet 24, 2018 by Marianne Grier | Un commentaire sur Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite

Earlier this year, we had a bed bug scare. I woke up the morning of our first international flight with baby to a smattering of red bumps on my leg. The following afternoon, as the edgy haze of jet lag settled in, I noticed how itchy my leg had grown. As I wondered about possible […]

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James Harbeck

The Roots of Disagreement

juillet 17, 2018 by James Harbeck | Un commentaire sur The Roots of Disagreement

It was one of those crises that end up in the parentheses of memoranda; it concerned the geneses of several referenda among alumni (and alumnæ) about addenda to their indices: the criteria for the termini of Greek- and Latin-derived words. By what formulæ should we choose, for instance, schemata or schemas? The competing sides saw […]

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