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Victoria Neufeldt

Old Words

avril 16, 2013 by Victoria Neufeldt | Un commentaire sur Old Words

Old words are just as interesting as new words.  But how old is old?  We use a good number of words today that go all the way back to Old English, the language of the Germanic peoples who invaded and then settled in England in the fifth century A.D.  These “native” words are some of […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Learning to like « like »

avril 9, 2013 by Karen Virag | 2 commentaires sur GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Learning to like « like »

One often hears complaints about how some people litter their sentences with the word like—not as a noun, verb, preposition or conjunction, but as, like, an interjection. Like that. Now I know that Canadians like to blame Americans for all the world’s ills, but we can’t really lay this verbal tic at the feet of […]

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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 2: What’s in an Internship?

avril 2, 2013 by Kate Icely | 5 commentaires sur DISPATCHES 2: What’s in an Internship?

When I enrolled at Ryerson in the fall of 2011, I took as many editing courses as I could. Copy editing, proofreading, grammar, substantive editing…. The more courses I took, the more I loved working with words. After years of university, here I was, finally surrounded by people who thought exactly as I did. People […]

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Frances Peck

New Tax Guidelines for Self-Employed BC Editors

mars 26, 2013 by Frances Peck | 3 commentaires sur New Tax Guidelines for Self-Employed BC Editors

On April 1, 2013, the BC government will repeal the HST and return to the former GST + PST regime. What does that mean for self-employed editors? We’ve dug into the matter and are happy to share what we’ve found. Please note that these are our personal comments, not those of EAC. We are not […]

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Iva Cheung

What does your markup say about you?

mars 19, 2013 by Iva Cheung | 5 commentaires sur What does your markup say about you?

A friend of mine was venting to me about his old boss, who used to look over his reports. Whenever his boss found an error, he’d not only circle it but also emphasize his discovery with an exclamation point—a practice that drove my buddy nuts. Encoded within this tiny mark of punctuation was his micromanaging […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Things that dangle

mars 12, 2013 by Karen Virag | Un commentaire sur GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Things that dangle

Things that dangle in the night. And in the day. Hours before giving birth, a woman’s boyfriend leaves her for her best friend and quits the talent agency they run together to start his own competing business. Now that is one amazing—and appalling!—boyfriend. First he gives birth, then he betrays his girlfriend. Typical man. In […]

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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES from an Editorial Intern

mars 5, 2013 by Kate Icely | 10 commentaires sur DISPATCHES from an Editorial Intern

Outside Looking In I decided I wanted to go into publishing in early 2011. It was a good solution to my problems at the time. Problems like why I didn’t want to fill out arduous grad school applications and why I wouldn’t apply to law school (as members of my family fervently hoped I would). […]

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Debra Huron

Freedom to read, at all

février 28, 2013 by Debra Huron

Although larger social issues are on the periphery of what we do as editors and writers, they sometimes grab my attention by speaking to questions of equity and human rights regarding the written word. Here’s how this is resonating with me this week. During the week of February 24 as Canada celebrates Freedom to Read Week, […]

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R. Franklin Carter

Know Your Legal Limits

février 26, 2013 by R. Franklin Carter | 3 commentaires sur Know Your Legal Limits

Let’s begin by sketching a fictional but plausible scenario. Dan Ascot is a librarian who works at the University of Western Nebraska. One day, in 2009, he posts a few remarks about a publisher on his blog. He says that Knightsbridge Press, a publisher of scholarly books in Massachusetts, produces “over-priced works of dubious scholarship.” […]

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Anita Jenkins

What’s an editor to do?

février 19, 2013 by Anita Jenkins | 4 commentaires sur What’s an editor to do?

Virginia Durksen recently stated in her blog post The Inner Editor: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice that an editor must “respect the writer’s voice and suggest only those changes that serve the writer first, and then the writer’s reader.” Certainly I agree; it’s a big mistake to indiscriminately apply a standardized style so firmly […]

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