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Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting.
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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 7: Finding Work in Unexpected Places

Mercredi octobre 2, 2013

Getting an internship can lead to a job—but it might not be the job you were expecting. When I first started taking courses at Ryerson University, I didn’t have a clue about the variety of jobs available to me. I knew I could be an editorial assistant at a publishing company, but there were so […]

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James Harbeck

Topics, We Front Them | Linguistics, Frankly

Mardi janvier 14, 2014

English is normally a subject-verb-object kind of language, but there are some interesting exceptions, especially in casual contexts. Consider examples such as the following: Poodles, we walk them. Labradors, they walk us. Chickens we have; roads, not so much. Not one of the clauses above follows standard English sentence order, and yet we understand them. […]

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Susan Glickman

Facts and Fiction: Artful Flight

Mardi février 3, 2015

I’d like to recommend two of my favourite books for writers, one ostensibly fiction and the other, not. Except that both are so idiosyncratic, so luminously zany, so full of revelatory insights, humour and poignancy, that generic boundaries seem to melt and what you take away from each is reaffirmation of not only why you […]

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Correct English: Reality or Myth
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Sue Archer

Review: Correct English: Reality or Myth? by Geoffrey Marnell

Mardi septembre 22, 2015

I’m sure all of us, as editors, have encountered heated discussions about the notion of “correct” English. It’s an inescapable occupational hazard. With the prescriptivists in one corner and the descriptivists in the other, the debate continually rages on. I was curious to know if Geoffrey Marnell would bring anything new to the discussion with […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Is Editing a Deadly Profession?

Mardi Décembre 15, 2015

Poison pens, ego-shattering commentary, creative assassination by a thousand edits, cut, cut, slash, slash. Oh, the horror! Well, actually, I’m here to talk about “death by sitting.” Yes, editors tend to sit a lot, and sitting has been declared the new sugar. This is not news, when you think about it. We’ve long been warned […]

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