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Anna Williams General EAC

Year in Review: The Best of 2016

janvier 10, 2017 by Anna Williams | 6 commentaires sur Year in Review: The Best of 2016

With another year behind us, we’d like to know what you liked best on the blog in 2016 and what you’d most like to see in the new year. Let us know in the comments! Here are some of our top picks: Should You Only “Edit What You Know?” by Sue Archer. Should we only […]

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Anna Williams

Happy Holidays

Décembre 22, 2016 by Anna Williams | 14 commentaires sur Happy Holidays

Dear Readers, As the new year approaches, I’m embarking on my fourth year as the managing editor of the Editors’ Weekly. As always, my goal is to provide interesting, informative blog posts for your enjoyment, and this is only possible thanks to the people who graciously contribute their articles and the loyal subscribers who read […]

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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest — and Shortest — Month

Décembre 20, 2016 by Virginia Durksen | 11 commentaires sur The Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest — and Shortest — Month

The little knot forming in your chest isn’t a reaction to the cold weather. It’s the freelance editor’s anxiety kicking in right on schedule, just before the holidays. When projects disappear in other months, the freelance editor adjusts her schedule and cash flow projections and stoically reminds herself that this month’s famine may well be […]

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James Harbeck

Calling Them What They Want

Décembre 13, 2016 by James Harbeck | 8 commentaires sur Calling Them What They Want

We’re all professionally attentive to detail, so I’m sure we all appreciate that, having earned a PhD, I am technically Dr. Harbeck, and it could be rude to call me Mr. Harbeck. My wife, having a master’s, is Ms. Arro — not Miss Arro, because she’s married, and not Mrs. Arro, let alone Mrs. Harbeck. […]

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Tracey Anderson

Editing Technical Instructional Material: Become the Student

Décembre 6, 2016 by Tracey Anderson | 5 commentaires sur Editing Technical Instructional Material: Become the Student

Creating effective instructional material for technical students can be tricky. Making it student friendly requires a balance between adequately covering the information, which is often highly technical, and presenting it in a way that a wide range of students can understand. These are some ways editors can help subject matter experts (SMEs) find this balance. Watch […]

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Sue Archer

Review: The Complete Canadian Book Editor by Leslie Vermeer

novembre 29, 2016 by Sue Archer | 3 commentaires sur Review: The Complete Canadian Book Editor by Leslie Vermeer

When I first heard about The Complete Canadian Book Editor, I couldn’t help but be intrigued by the notion of a “complete” resource on book editing. I edit the works of self-publishing authors, so my knowledge of the world of traditional book publishing is limited — gained mostly through conversations with other editors and my […]

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Frances Peck

Keeping Up With the (Editorial) Times

novembre 22, 2016 by Frances Peck | 8 commentaires sur Keeping Up With the (Editorial) Times

As editors, we can never stop learning. Whether it’s to resolve specific questions, maintain a credential or generally stay on top of our field, we have to keep up with a dizzying array of books, articles, blogs, newsletters, interviews, Twitter chats, Facebook posts, webinars — and the list goes on. Ignore that information and we […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Where the Ink Meets the Road — Insights From Working In a Bookstore

novembre 15, 2016 by Paul Cipywnyk | 12 commentaires sur Where the Ink Meets the Road — Insights From Working In a Bookstore

I’ve recently picked up a few shifts a week at a bookstore, receiving and stocking while I think about where I want to go with my career. As a longtime editor, it’s giving me a different view of the book world. The logistics alone are impressive. Early every morning we arrive to new skids of […]

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Virginia Durksen

The Inner Editor: Introvert, Know Thyself

novembre 8, 2016 by Virginia Durksen | 3 commentaires sur The Inner Editor: Introvert, Know Thyself

Just after parlour games went out of fashion, but before Facebook, a self-employed editor might have used her idle hours for professional developments and introspections of various sorts. In particular, one such editor might have noticed that her clients had entire Human Resources departments dedicated to circulating questionnaires to help people realize who they were […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Channelling Orwell

novembre 1, 2016 by Wilf Popoff | 2 commentaires sur Wasted Words: Channelling Orwell

“Insincerity,” says George Orwell in his classic commentary of 70 years ago, is the “great enemy of clear language.” Political discourse is “designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable…” For Orwell, insincerity was more a result of lazy writing than a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth: “…if thought corrupts language, language can […]

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