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Perrin Lindelauf

Draftsmith: An Editor’s Review

Décembre 14, 2023 by Perrin Lindelauf | 4 commentaires sur Draftsmith: An Editor’s Review

Intelligent Editing’s PerfectIt has long been the consistency software standard for editors, so when the rapid AI advances of the last year began flipping industries on its head, I grew curious about how the company would keep pace.  Its response is Draftsmith, a new AI writing refiner that promises to bridge the gap between lacklustre […]

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Letitia Henville

How (And Why) I Developed a Digital Tool for My Freelance Clients — And Then Gave It Away for Free

septembre 13, 2022 by Letitia Henville | Un commentaire sur How (And Why) I Developed a Digital Tool for My Freelance Clients — And Then Gave It Away for Free

This past June, I launched a new digital tool for academic writers — my preferred clients — at writingwellishard.com. This tool enables academics to compare features of their own writing with the features of a writing sample of their choice. For instance, users could see whether they write sentences that are, on average, longer or […]

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Amy J. Schneider

Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

mai 24, 2022 by Amy J. Schneider | Un commentaire sur Amy J. Schneider: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Amy J. Schneider has been a full-time freelance copyeditor and proofreader of fiction and non-fiction and the owner of Featherschneider Editorial Services since 1995. Since 2012 Amy has written articles and presented in-person and online sessions on […]

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Ruth E. Thaler-Carter

Ruth E. Thaler-Carter: An Editor’s Top 3

avril 12, 2022 by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Ruth E. Thaler-Carter has been managing and speaking about websites for several years, for both her own ventures and those of her clients. Her in-person and virtual presentations about editors’ websites have been popular with several professional […]

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Lucy Payette

What’s New in the Canadian Press Stylebook

novembre 2, 2021 by Lucy Payette | Un commentaire sur What’s New in the Canadian Press Stylebook

Since its inception in 1940, The Canadian Press Stylebook has changed “cautiously,” as stated on its website, with a motto of “evolution, not revolution.” Nonetheless, if you’ve followed Canadian Press style, you know it isn’t enough to commit to memory the style standards and leave it at that. Language and usage changes — and style […]

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Aaron Dalton

Review: The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt

septembre 14, 2021 by Aaron Dalton | Un commentaire sur Review: The Chicago Manual of Style for PerfectIt

Disclaimer: I received a free year of access to The Chicago Manual of Style Online (CMOS Online) and PerfectIt 5 as part of testing the beta version and writing this review. Efficiency is key to maximizing your income. There are only so many hours in a day, so you simply must do more in those […]

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Lesley Cameron

Style Sheets: Your New Best Friend

Décembre 15, 2020 by Lesley Cameron | 4 commentaires sur Style Sheets: Your New Best Friend

At an Editors’ Vine virtual meeting in November, Editors Canada member Lesley Cameron presented “Getting the Most from Style Sheets.” Here are some of the highlights from her talk. The primary function of a style sheet is to record all style decisions about a text to ensure consistency within a document. That, in turn, can […]

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Aaron Dalton

Wildcards and Regular Expressions

novembre 10, 2020 by Aaron Dalton

Recently, I’ve seen some problems involving global text edits that were easily solved with Microsoft Word’s Advanced Find and Replace feature. Spending some time learning the ins and outs of this feature will more than pay off when you’re able to do something in minutes that would take you hours to do manually. Find and […]

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Erin Brenner

Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

septembre 8, 2020 by Erin Brenner | 2 commentaires sur Erin Brenner: An Editor’s Top 3

In this series, experienced editors reflect on their Top 3 tools, rules and suggestions for clients and colleagues. Erin Brenner is an author and an award-winning copywriter who has been running her own business, Right Touch Editing, for more than a decade. Her company specializes in business publishing and indie books related to marketing and […]

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Nancy Flight

40 Years: An Editor’s Perspective

mars 5, 2019 by Nancy Flight | 3 commentaires sur 40 Years: An Editor’s Perspective

Forty-six years ago, when I embarked on my editing career, my first assignment was to edit a 500-page novel, which the publisher plunked onto my desk along with a copy of The Chicago Manual of Style and a dictionary. “Here, edit this,” he said. That was my instruction in its entirety. There were no courses […]

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Tracey Anderson

A Measure of Editing Success

août 1, 2017 by Tracey Anderson | 2 commentaires sur A Measure of Editing Success

The term “metrics” has become a bit of a business buzzword, especially for digital enterprises. It’s a trendy word for ways to quantifiably measure success such as tracking social media metrics (followers, click-through rates) or sales metrics (monthly numbers). As editors, though, we don’t have the same kinds of reliable metrics to help us measure […]

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Marion Soubliere

Attending Conferences at Home and Abroad? Aye!

juillet 11, 2017 by Marion Soublière | 2 commentaires sur Attending Conferences at Home and Abroad? Aye!

For editors, industry conferences are like chicken soup for the soul. Editing can be a lonely profession, but combining learning with camaraderie is a spirit-boosting elixir. Many of us are still brimming with ideas and newfound confidence following June’s 2017 Editors Canada conference in Gatineau. Such learning and networking need not stop with membership in […]

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Tracey Anderson

Check Mates: Create a Checklist as an Editing Tool

mai 2, 2017 by Tracey Anderson | 3 commentaires sur Check Mates: Create a Checklist as an Editing Tool

I admit it: I’m a (sometimes obsessive) list maker. I make them for all kinds of things: to-do lists, grocery lists, vacation packing lists; my list of lists goes on and on. It’s no surprise, then, that I often use an editing checklist. For me, a checklist is a useful tool for staying organized and […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Basic Tools for Productive Editing

avril 19, 2016 by Paul Cipywnyk | Un commentaire sur Basic Tools for Productive Editing

Your computer set-up can determine whether you have a smooth editing experience or suffer headache after IT-related headache, so let’s look at some of the tools that help editors succeed. Hardware Buy a computer with lots of memory (RAM), a minimum of 8 GB and preferably 16 GB. Having lots of memory enables you to keep many […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

How Skype Helped Support a Family Editing Tradition

Décembre 9, 2014 by Paul Cipywnyk | 3 commentaires sur How Skype Helped Support a Family Editing Tradition

Upon retirement from their teaching careers at the University of Saskatchewan, my late mother, Sonia Morris, and her sister, Roma Franko, embarked on a labour of love: translating Ukrainian literature into English. For many years they shared desk space in one another’s homes in Saskatoon. Roma focused on translating, and Sonia on editing. I provided […]

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