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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: The Phantom Client

juillet 18, 2017 by Wilf Popoff | 2 commentaires sur Wasted Words: The Phantom Client

For many editors positive client engagement is central to a project — a good work relationship, frank feedback and response, and, finally, appreciation. Such pleasures, alas, are seldom part of my grind. Often I don’t get close enough to an actual client to cultivate such a connection. Communications agencies or consulting engineers who outsource projects […]

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Marion Soubliere

Attending Conferences at Home and Abroad? Aye!

juillet 11, 2017 by Marion Soublière | 2 commentaires sur Attending Conferences at Home and Abroad? Aye!

For editors, industry conferences are like chicken soup for the soul. Editing can be a lonely profession, but combining learning with camaraderie is a spirit-boosting elixir. Many of us are still brimming with ideas and newfound confidence following June’s 2017 Editors Canada conference in Gatineau. Such learning and networking need not stop with membership in […]

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Anita Jenkins

Editors Canada’s Karen Virag Award

juillet 4, 2017 by Anita Jenkins | Un commentaire sur Editors Canada’s Karen Virag Award

Editors Canada established the Karen Virag Award in 2016 to honour the memory of a remarkable Edmonton editor. This award recognizes individuals or groups who do an exceptional job of raising the profile of editors and the editing profession. These skills and initiatives are somewhat exceptional among the editing ranks, since an editor’s usual role […]

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Marianne Grier

Home Is Where the Bagel Is

juin 27, 2017 by Marianne Grier | 9 commentaires sur Home Is Where the Bagel Is

What do you mean when you say the word “home”? Amongst other definitions, the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2nd ed.) defines “home” as “the place where one lives,” “a house or dwelling place” or “the place where a thing originates or is native or most common.”  As someone with nomadic tendencies, these definitions have often clashed […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Editing Is Lifelong Learning

juin 20, 2017 by Rosemary Shipton | 6 commentaires sur Editing Is Lifelong Learning

Editors enjoy their careers for various reasons — the opportunity to work in the exciting literary world or the more lucrative realms of government or business, or to specialize in particular areas of expertise. For me the major attraction is the simple fact that every project is different — I learn new things every day. […]

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Christian Bergeron

NuqneH!, dit le Klingon

juin 13, 2017 by Christian Bergeron | 3 commentaires sur NuqneH!, dit le Klingon

L’an dernier, le Musée de l’aviation et de l’espace du Canada m’a confié le mandat de traduire les textes de l’exposition « Star Trek : L’expérience Académie de Starfleet ». Moi qui adore découvrir de nouveaux univers, j’étais servi! J’ai donc couru à la Grande Bibliothèque emprunter l’un des rares ouvrages de référence disponibles en français sur la […]

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Frances Peck

Editing and Empathy

juin 6, 2017 by Frances Peck | 7 commentaires sur Editing and Empathy

I’m thinking more about empathy these days. So are other editors — witness last week’s post on the editor-author relationship. So are Canadians in general, judging by Google searches over the past decade.                     Source: Google Trends. Y-axis shows interest over time, defined as follows: “Numbers […]

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Paul Buckingham

Stepping Into the Arena

mai 30, 2017 by Paul Buckingham | 13 commentaires sur Stepping Into the Arena

We’ve all as editors had the odd grumble over something an author has written. Maybe a string of noun clusters has pushed us to the limit of our patience, or we’ve broken down over a text awash with comma splices. It’s easy to criticize when we’re on the sidelines, though. Our problems are not the […]

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Marion Soubliere

How to Market Your Services to the Feds

mai 23, 2017 by Marion Soublière | 4 commentaires sur How to Market Your Services to the Feds

The Government of Canada, one of this country’s biggest markets, is eager to do business with the tiniest of firms. Its Office of Small and Medium Enterprises launched in 2005 to help small companies land contracts. And, after many attempts to simplify procurement, a new e-commerce web portal is planned that would feature catalogues of goods […]

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Suzanne Purkis

Interview with Cherie Dimaline

mai 16, 2017 by Suzanne Purkis | 3 commentaires sur Interview with Cherie Dimaline

On Saturday, June 10, Métis writer and editor Cherie Dimaline will kick off the 2017 Editors Canada conference with a keynote address. Conference co-chair Suzanne Purkis interviewed Cherie about writing, editing and some of the challenges facing Indigenous writers in Canada. 1. Does your experience as an editor influence your approach to writing? If so, how? […]

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