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Emily Lam

A Growing Space for Academic Editors

septembre 28, 2023 by Emily Lam

If you’re an academic editor looking to connect with others in the field, or if you’ve ever thought about becoming an academic editor, then consider joining the Academic Editing (AE) special interest group, also known as the AE Chapter.   The AE Chapter is a virtual group jointly organized by Editors Canada and the Editorial Freelancers […]

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Cathy McPhalen

A New Gathering Place for Academic Editors

septembre 20, 2022 by Cathy McPhalen | Un commentaire sur A New Gathering Place for Academic Editors

Editors Canada is launching a special interest group for freelance and in-house editors who work with academic clients: individual researchers, universities, students or academic journals and publishers. The vision for this virtual group is to provide a space to discuss themes and share information around editing in academic realms. Our academic clients need editors more […]

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Glenna Jenkins

How the Pandemic Allowed Me to Learn a New Skill

janvier 26, 2021 by Glenna Jenkins

Last year, when Peerwith management asked me whether I could revise a paper written in Overleaf — an online LaTeX editor for the production of technical and scientific documentation — I saw it as a learning opportunity. Working as an academic editor through Peerwith.com meant I dodged the many changes and challenges the majority of […]

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Glenna Jenkins

Peerwith.com: A Peer-to-Peer Editorial Platform

novembre 24, 2020 by Glenna Jenkins | Un commentaire sur Peerwith.com: A Peer-to-Peer Editorial Platform

There are career opportunities for editors who are interested in helping non-native English-speaking researchers prepare their papers for publication. This type of work allows editors to meet and work with smart, interesting people and have a front-row seat to new research coming on stream. The Peerwith community Peerwith.com is an innovative peer-to-peer (P2P) platform that […]

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Letitia Henville

Top Three Fixes for Academic Research Grant Applications

mars 24, 2020 by Letitia Henville | 3 commentaires sur Top Three Fixes for Academic Research Grant Applications

As a former in-house grants facilitator in a small health sciences department, and now as a freelance academic editor, I see a lot of the same issues recurring in applications for academic research funding. If I only had an hour or two to review a grant, these are the top three things I’d be looking […]

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Virginia Durksen

Interview With Dr. Suzanne M. Steele

septembre 4, 2018 by Virginia Durksen | 9 commentaires sur Interview With Dr. Suzanne M. Steele

Part 1: Dr. Suzanne M. Steele, scholar and editor Dr. Suzanne Steele has built her career on words as a librarian, a war poet, a librettist, a teacher and an academic editor working with ESL writers who are often translating their ideas across cultures as well as languages. Virginia Durksen is the editor for Suzanne’s […]

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Standards Communication Task Force

Standards at Work: Academic Editing

avril 24, 2018 by Standards Communication Task Force | 4 commentaires sur Standards at Work: Academic Editing

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) describe the responsibilities of an editor. The scope of PES is broad; this series explores how the standards apply to a variety of editing contexts. I edit academic papers in preparation for submission to journals. My clients are researchers, and have usually settled the structure and content of their […]

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Cathy McPhalen

Editing Niches: Back to School With Thesis Editing

septembre 20, 2016 by Cathy McPhalen | 2 commentaires sur Editing Niches: Back to School With Thesis Editing

Editors may spurn thesis (or dissertation) work for graduate students, but that shuts off fascinating pathways. Students become academics who need editors for journal articles, monographs, textbooks and grant applications. Those who become non-academics need business reports, web pages, novels and [insert the types of documents you edit here ] edited. Catching them young can forge […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Editors and Their Clients

janvier 13, 2015 by Rosemary Shipton | 3 commentaires sur Editors and Their Clients

Editors are shaped by their clients. Sure, we all share common knowledge, skills and talents, but we’re influenced by what our employers want from us. Over a period of years, that accumulated experience makes us the editors we are today. In recent posts to this site, Lori Burwash has described the challenges of writing and […]

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