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Victoria Neufeldt

What’s an Editor to Do?

janvier 6, 2015 by Victoria Neufeldt | 2 commentaires sur What’s an Editor to Do?

The vagaries of language can cause even the most experienced editors headaches. Editors as a group are more attuned to the whims and ways of language than the average speaker, but many strange and challenging usages regularly fly under the radar and pass into public text, despite our best efforts. When should an editor accept […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Local Realities — Western Quebec and Eastern Townships

Décembre 16, 2014 by Dwain Richardson

If you live in the vicinity of Canada’s capital region and are aspiring to become a language professional, you’re in for a treat. For starters, the cities of Gatineau and Ottawa and their surrounding areas are home to most federal government departments. Localities on either side of the Ottawa River have municipal administrations and provincial […]

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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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Sue Archer

Four Guidelines for Editing Your Way Through the Corporate Jungle

novembre 25, 2014 by Sue Archer | 10 commentaires sur Four Guidelines for Editing Your Way Through the Corporate Jungle

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be an editor. Unlike many of my editing colleagues who work in publishing, I ply my trade within a corporation. Although my official title is not “editor,” editing is a large part of what I do. I’ve worked for years in information technology, where […]

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Rosemary Shipton

Twelve-Step Editing

novembre 4, 2014 by Rosemary Shipton | 23 commentaires sur Twelve-Step Editing

One project, one editor — that’s the norm in Canada today. Only a few large trade publishers and a small number of government departments still divide editing between structural/stylistic editors and copy editors, while the rapidly dwindling group of educational publishers distinguish between developmental editing and copy editing. Almost all the other publishers, institutions and […]

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Dwain Richardson

English Editing in Quebec: Local Realities — Montreal and Area

octobre 21, 2014 by Dwain Richardson | 5 commentaires sur English Editing in Quebec: Local Realities — Montreal and Area

It’s a well-known fact: Quebec is the only French-language province in Canada. According to recent statistics, la belle province is home to over eight million inhabitants.[1] Of these inhabitants, 78 per cent are native French speakers and over seven per cent are English speakers. In the Greater Montreal Area, 47 per cent of residents identify […]

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Lori Burwash

Don’t Tick People Off, and Other Tips for Writing and Editing Web Copy

octobre 14, 2014 by Lori Burwash | 8 commentaires sur Don’t Tick People Off, and Other Tips for Writing and Editing Web Copy

If you’re writing or editing copy destined for the web, know this: People don’t read. They don’t even finish what they’re not reading. Instead, they scan for answers and, with any luck, take action based on what they find. It’s less about the journey, more about the destination. Your mission, then, is to pave and […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Part 3

septembre 16, 2014 by Melva McLean | 2 commentaires sur An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Part 3

Later that afternoon, I arrived home and plunked myself down in front of a blank screen. It felt like I’d joined the ranks of such writers as Hemingway and Faulkner, Ludlum and Michener, and many others who’d lost manuscripts and had to start over from scratch. Of course, in this day and age, you don’t […]

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Abby Egerter

Keenness of Eye and Humble Pie, Along That Path Awards Will Lie

septembre 2, 2014 by Abby Egerter

In this instalment of our “Editors in the Spotlight” series, Abby Egerter interviews editor Jennifer Foster, who worked on the award-winning Dirty Science: 25 Experiments with Soil, by Shar Levine and Leslie Johnstone. Jennifer Foster has been editing for 17 years and freelancing for 10. However, book publishing is something of a new venture for […]

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Peter Midgley

The Lucky Ones

août 26, 2014 by Peter Midgley | 3 commentaires sur The Lucky Ones

How often have I heard the comment that editors are failed writers — or, in the scholarly environment in which I work, failed academics. Even when said in jest, the underlying suggestion is that one way of interacting with words and ideas — the editor’s — is somehow inferior. Such statements also hint at a […]

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Cy Strom

Because … It’s Time!

août 19, 2014 by Cy Strom | 5 commentaires sur Because … It’s Time!

“Whatever the current term for ‘hip’ is, that’s what we want to be …” This, I’m told, was the EAC Rebranding Task Force brief to the bilingual design team chosen to look into the organization’s midlife crisis, the youthful Costa Leclerc. “That’s a startling design — it will be fun to write about it.” This […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 2

août 12, 2014 by Melva McLean

In every good boot camp movie there’s a scene where a tough army trainer leaves the rebellious recruit out in the cold and rain all night or makes them do 1,000 pushups. This is one way to make the recruit begin to sacrifice ego. The other short story boot camp recruits and I didn’t have […]

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Kimmy Beach

An Intricate Relief Carving on an Eggshell: Working With Peter Midgley on The Last Temptation of Bond

juillet 22, 2014 by Kimmy Beach | 2 commentaires sur An Intricate Relief Carving on an Eggshell: Working With Peter Midgley on The Last Temptation of Bond

This is the first in our new “Editors in the Spotlight” series, spotlighting editors who have won awards or participated in award-winning projects. In this post, Kimmy Beach interviews Peter Midgley, who won the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for editing her book, The Last Temptation of Bond. ~~~ Peter and I meet at […]

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Melva McLean

An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

juillet 15, 2014 by Melva McLean | Un commentaire sur An Editor in a Three-Day Writer’s Boot Camp, Day 1

Novelist’s Boot Camp Travel Writing Boot Camp Dissertation Writing Boot Camp Resume Writing Boot Camp Children’s Picture Book Boot Camp Okay, STOP. Right there! Seriously? What could be less suited to boot camp than a kid’s picture book? What’s next? And when did the words “boot camp,” i.e., “a military training camp for new recruits, […]

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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

juillet 8, 2014 by Wilf Popoff | 6 commentaires sur Wasted Words: Jobspeak, the Language of Work

At an age when young men are learning to shave, I was hanging out at police stations and courthouses. No, I wasn’t in trouble with the law. I was a newspaper reporter, writing about the legal problems of others and the policemen* who brought them to justice. In fact, the only crimes I committed were […]

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Adrienne Montgomerie

Software for Editors

juin 3, 2014 by Adrienne Montgomerie | 6 commentaires sur Software for Editors

The editing of words is well into the technological age now. While paper still exists, it would be surprising to find an editorial or production workflow that doesn’t involve computers. What programs are editors using? Editors I interviewed when writing the technology section for the third edition of EAC’s Editing Canadian English said this is […]

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Anna Williams

Cold Call Case Files

mai 13, 2014 by Anna Williams | Un commentaire sur Cold Call Case Files

Cold calling. I’ve heard arguments against it — it doesn’t generate work, it’s better to network in person, only word-of-mouth referrals reliably lead to jobs. But I haven’t yet discovered a downside. I can pick and choose all the companies I’d like to work for and start calling them. A phone call only takes a […]

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Lori Burwash

Lessons Learned From Eminem, David Ogilvy and a Sex Hotline

avril 29, 2014 by Lori Burwash | 18 commentaires sur Lessons Learned From Eminem, David Ogilvy and a Sex Hotline

It all started respectably enough. Publishing courses at Ryerson, EAC workshops and conferences, the Banff Book Editing Workshop. I’ve had rock-solid editorial training. So what have a rap artist, an ad man and a sex hotline taught me about writing and editing? Some pretty useful things, it turns out. Eminem: Write and edit like a […]

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Susan Glickman

What Does It Take to Start Freelancing?

avril 8, 2014 by Susan Glickman | 10 commentaires sur What Does It Take to Start Freelancing?

If you’re just starting out as a freelancer, whether you’re a writer or an editor, keep in mind that the only way to survive is to be brutally efficient — which means you will have no social life. You should, however, get a gym membership and use it, because you’ll need to keep your energy […]

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Virginia Durksen

Myth: It Takes a Certain Personality to Become an Editor

mars 25, 2014 by Virginia Durksen | 4 commentaires sur Myth: It Takes a Certain Personality to Become an Editor

Any profession draws certain personality types to it more readily than others. But just as there’s no single lawyer or doctor or teacher type, there’s more than one editor type. Editors come in all sorts. Editors can be achievers, caretakers, managers, control freaks, idea generators, intellectuals, entrepreneurs — and are often a bit of everything […]

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David Antrobus

The Editor’s Fedora Part 4

mars 13, 2014 by David Antrobus | 4 commentaires sur The Editor’s Fedora Part 4

In Part 3 we discussed how editors determine costs. And before you scoff at or otherwise leap to judgment of the rates, it’s probably pertinent to mention another facet of this — it’s a generally accepted rule that whatever hourly rate a freelancer settles on, you can estimate their annual salary by multiplying it by […]

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David Antrobus

The Editor’s Fedora Part 3

mars 10, 2014 by David Antrobus | 12 commentaires sur The Editor’s Fedora Part 3

Now we arrive at the crucial topic of cost, and the seemingly arbitrary variations in same. Some editors are so brilliant that they really can and do charge top dollar. I know someone who can quote $5,000 for editing an 80,000-word manuscript. Before you gag on that, bear in mind that editing at that rarefied […]

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Wilf Popoff

An Editor Who Laughed at Her Work

mars 4, 2014 by Wilf Popoff | 4 commentaires sur An Editor Who Laughed at Her Work

As an editor Karen Virag never seemed to flinch when she spotted a gaffe. Why should she? She had the smarts to identify the problem and the skill to correct it. She also recognized that without bad writing she wouldn’t have a job. Such virtues apply to any competent editor, but Karen went further. She […]

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David Antrobus

The Editor’s Fedora Part 2

février 27, 2014 by David Antrobus | 2 commentaires sur The Editor’s Fedora Part 2

Okay, after Part 1, you should now have the MS nice and clean. What’s the next step? How do you find an editor? This part isn’t hard, but it’s crucial you find someone who’s right for your book. And there’s no substitute for research. Ask around. Google. If you haven’t already done so, join writers’ […]

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