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Anita Jenkins

What’s an editor to do?

février 19, 2013 by Anita Jenkins | 4 commentaires sur What’s an editor to do?

Virginia Durksen recently stated in her blog post The Inner Editor: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice that an editor must “respect the writer’s voice and suggest only those changes that serve the writer first, and then the writer’s reader.” Certainly I agree; it’s a big mistake to indiscriminately apply a standardized style so firmly […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: I are confused

février 12, 2013 by Karen Virag | Un commentaire sur GETTABLE GRAMMAR: I are confused

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. I ARE CONFUSED, AREN’T I? Have you ever wondered why we say, “He is, isn’t he?” and “She is, isn’t she?” but we don’t say “I am, amn’t I?” (though you might say this if you lived in certain parts of […]

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Wilf Popoff

WASTED WORDS: My hit list

février 5, 2013 by Wilf Popoff | 2 commentaires sur WASTED WORDS: My hit list

I have a dream: English users create their equivalent to the Académie Française to mind the language. I’m at the first hearing of this august body presenting a list of words I want banned. The English Academy must acquiesce if the language is to be saved. First up is the noun process. I recognize that this […]

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Nancy Flight

Are Book Editors an Endangered Species?

janvier 29, 2013 by Nancy Flight | 4 commentaires sur Are Book Editors an Endangered Species?

In  December 2012, the world was supposed to end, the U.S. was expected to fall off the so-called fiscal cliff, and some commentators had already pronounced Canadian publishing dead or nearly so. As we know, the world did not end, and the U.S. has avoided plunging over the fiscal cliff, at least for the time […]

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Kristina Lundberg

Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

janvier 22, 2013 by Kristina Lundberg | 4 commentaires sur Rising Above the Plateau: Mid-Career PD for Editors

Every fall I struggle with the professional development plan I’m required to submit to my employer. My first decade in editing was brimming with formal and informal professional development, and my professional growth was steep. Fourteen years into my career, how can I rise above the PD plateau and continue to grow? Of course, in editing there’s […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Less is More

janvier 15, 2013 by Karen Virag

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. LESS IS MORE, NOT FEWER. EXCEPT SOMETIMES. The question of when to use fewer and when to use less perplexes many people. Generally speaking, you should use fewer to refer to a smaller number and less to refer to a smaller […]

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Virginia Durksen

THE INNER EDITOR: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice

janvier 8, 2013 by Virginia Durksen | Un commentaire sur THE INNER EDITOR: Reflections on Editing as Mindful Practice

  As a young reader, I liked writers who tactfully addressed the “gentle reader.” Perhaps I enjoyed the ironic wink suggesting that writer and reader are both in on creating the story. Indirectly or directly, good writers invite the reader to trust the unfolding tale, just as they find a way to signal their trust […]

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Victoria Neufeldt

New Words

janvier 2, 2013 by Victoria Neufeldt | 2 commentaires sur New Words

The end of a year brings thoughts of old and new words—and not only to us word birds, who throughout the year are tuned into what’s coming in and what’s fading out. It’s generally easier to recognize the new than the obsolescent. New words and meanings can virtually explode onto the linguistic scene. Such terms usually relate […]

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Karen Virag

GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Grammar class wars

Décembre 18, 2012 by Karen Virag | 2 commentaires sur GETTABLE GRAMMAR: Grammar class wars

Gettable Grammar is a monthly series of conjectures, opinions and postulates by Karen Virag. GRAMMAR CLASS WARS Grammar. If it’s not your gramper’s wife, what the heck is it? Well, grammar is the field of linguistics that covers the conventions of a language; it involves morphology and syntax, phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics. Still scratching […]

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Rosemary Shipton

A Changing Role for Editors

Décembre 12, 2012 by Rosemary Shipton | 3 commentaires sur A Changing Role for Editors

It’s not all that long ago that editors were invisible or, if their presence was recognized, dismissed as nitpickers or as dangerous meddlers in the creative writing process. “Let’s Kill All the Copyeditors,” ran one newspaper headline. Renowned professor Jacques Barzun railed against the errors that “tone deaf” editors introduced to his texts in his […]

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Melva McLean

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: A Book Editor in the Land of Cinema

Décembre 4, 2012 by Melva McLean

(The first in a series on working as an editor in the film industry.) In 1966, my older sister snuck me into the Windsor Theatre to see an R-rated movie, A Man and Woman, starring Anouk Aimée as a script girl and Jean-Louis Trintignant as a car racer. After that, whenever someone asked me what […]

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Wilf Popoff

WASTED WORDS: The editor as analyst

novembre 24, 2012 by Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words is a series of musings on language and usage by editor emeritus Wilf Popoff. I find it hard to edit without playing amateur psychologist. Why did the writer do this? Carelessness? Ignorance? Of course it can be either. Compared to editors writers are not as alert, which is why they need us. But […]

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Susan Bond

Starting the Conversation

novembre 20, 2012 by Susan Bond

Welcome to The Editors’ Weekly, official blog of the Editors’ Association of Canada/Association canadienne des réviseurs (EAC/ACR). The EAC promotes professional editing for print and online communications. Our 1,600 members include salaried and freelance editors who work in the corporate, technical, government, not-for-profit, education and publishing sectors. Authors contributing to this blog will include many recognized […]

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