Étiquette : Facets of Editing

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Leonie Pipe

For the Love of Science

mai 26, 2015 by Leonie Pipe | Un commentaire sur For the Love of Science

In advance of Editing Goes Global, New Zealand’s Leonie Pipe shares her story with the Editors’ Weekly of how she became a science editor. A circuitous route I fell into editing as I fall into most of my life’s activities — by some circuitous, curly-whirly route. I’ve always loved writing, and when I was a […]

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Paul Cipywnyk

Time, Money and the Freelance Life

mars 24, 2015 by Paul Cipywnyk | 5 commentaires sur Time, Money and the Freelance Life

For a creative professional or craftsperson, the business side of freelancing can be challenging. “I don’t want to run a business. I just want to write!” Or edit, or photograph, or paint or sing. Yet by selling your services or products, you are running a business. Why not run it well? So well that the […]

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Roma Ilnyckyj

Editing Science: Mechanics and Beyond

mars 10, 2015 by Roma Ilnyckyj | 2 commentaires sur Editing Science: Mechanics and Beyond

I work for a science communications company called Talk Science to Me. Our goal is to help scientists communicate their research effectively, and we offer writing, editing, design and project management services, among others. As an associate editor, I mostly copy edit and proofread research reports, articles, books and websites. Many of our clients are […]

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Paul Buckingham

A Formula for Mathematical Editing

février 10, 2015 by Paul Buckingham

Mathematicians need editors. But why should that be? Aren’t mathematical manuscripts rather short on words? And as for the symbols, don’t they look after themselves? In fact, mathematics has plenty of words, particularly at the research level, and the wordy passages are often where the exposition and explanation occur. A page in a typical mathematics […]

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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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