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Wasted Words: A Paean to Poetry

Mardi août 14, 2018

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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Language Resources for Non-Native English Speakers

Mardi mai 7, 2019

I teach plain language workshops, and I was recently approached by a non-native English speaker. His language skills were excellent. He said he learned English mostly through standardized exams, and he felt there was a gap between the mode of English he was taught and the plain language approach I was preaching. His question was […]

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Marion Soubliere

Social Procurement to Woo Female-Led Firms, Among Others

Mardi mai 28, 2019

There’s a short paragraph in Budget 2018 that didn’t garner much buzz last year. But it holds hope for women-owned companies that want a bigger piece of the roughly $20 billion annual federal market. As part of boosting the overall number of female-run firms in this country, the Government of Canada pledged to make sure […]

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Novel Medical Treatments

Mardi juin 4, 2019

People with serious health problems are often subject to novel treatments. But that shouldn’t mean being treated like they’re in a novel. Health problems are human problems, and they can be important stories about real things affecting real people. But often, in telling them, we create another problem, because we make the story conform to […]

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Natalia Iwanek – 2020-01-21 10:03:11

Hello, My name is Natalia Iwanek. I am a Toronto-based copy editor, proofreader, and writer. I am also a Student Affiliate of Editors Canada. I would like to propose a blog post about the transition from student to freelance editor. I am currently coming up on my one-year anniversary of editing and would like to […]

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Empirical Editors: Curse of Knowledge

Mardi mars 17, 2020

This article is part of a series that draws lessons from some of the research collected in Aaron Dalton’s “Empirical Research for Editors” list. Do you have the curse of knowledge? The “curse of knowledge” is a type of cognitive bias where someone unknowingly assumes, while communicating, that their audience has the same background knowledge […]

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Making the Shift from Student to Freelance Editor

Mardi mars 31, 2020

For novice editors, the transitional year from student to editor is often both remarkable and overwhelming. No amount of experience and education can prepare you for the phenomenon of imposter syndrome, the tendency to undervalue your work, and the persistent fear of failure. Above all, nothing quite prepares you for that first difficult client. Although […]

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Virginia St-Denis

Career Builder: An Action Plan for New Editors

Mardi mai 12, 2020

A new free resource is available to help you build your new editing career. Experienced editors can use it for giving advice to would-be editors. Launching a successful career just became a little easier for would-be editors, students and novice editors. The Career Builder provides valuable information to guide you through creating your personalized action […]

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Jake Poinier: An Editor’s Top 3

Mardi juillet 28, 2020

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Jake Poinier is a freelance editor in Phoenix, Ariz., with 31 years’ experience in the publishing industry. He specializes in business copywriting, ghostwriting and non-fiction book editing, and blogs about freelancing business topics at DoctorFreelance.com. Jake is […]

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Letitia Henville

How I’m Hiring a Student to Support My Freelance Editing Business

Mardi Décembre 8, 2020

I’ve never been happy with the look of my website, shortishard.ca. Yet, I’ve never needed to update it, because I get all my work through referrals, word of mouth or my monthly column, Ask Dr Editor. In 2021, though, things are going to change: I’m hiring an undergraduate student to make my website finally look […]

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