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Suzanne Bowness

Teaching Editing

mars 9, 2021 by Suzanne Bowness

Explaining your craft can help clarify editing for both newcomers and clients It’s one thing to have fantastic editorial skills, to know through years of reading, then training, then working, when a sentence sounds right or a piece flows nicely. But if you’re looking to take your communications to the next level, challenge yourself to […]

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Gael Spivak

Grammar Matters

août 25, 2020 by Gael Spivak | 8 commentaires sur Grammar Matters

Antecedents and gerunds. En dashes and ellipses. Gripping topics for editors, right? Well, it turns out they’re not gripping for all of us. As one of the admins for the Editors’ Association of Earth groups on Facebook, I read almost every post and comment (one group alone had 310 posts and 5,611 comments in a […]

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Rosemary Shipton

There’s No Clarity With Editors or Authors

septembre 5, 2017 by Rosemary Shipton | 6 commentaires sur There’s No Clarity With Editors or Authors

Editors say they love words, with finding just the right phrase for the context, but, ironically, they can only fail with two terms critical to the world of publishing: “editor” and “author.” When someone says she’s an editor, you have no idea what she does. Is she the editor of a newspaper or a magazine, […]

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Rosemary Shipton

What Should an Editor Be?

janvier 7, 2014 by Rosemary Shipton | 26 commentaires sur What Should an Editor Be?

We were nearing the end of a Stylistic Editing seminar — a group of about 30 people of varying ages and experience working in-house or freelance for book publishers, magazines, businesses or governments. A woman in the third row raised her hand: “In my work I’m the only editor,” she said, “so I don’t really […]

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Kate Icely

DISPATCHES 8: Looking Forward, Looking Back

novembre 13, 2013 by Kate Icely | 3 commentaires sur DISPATCHES 8: Looking Forward, Looking Back

I thought up this series while sitting in my cubicle at Random House of Canada just as I was starting my second internship. By this point I considered myself a pretty seasoned hand. I had seen a lot: the relentless hard work, the small embarrassments, the seemingly endless hours. But I had also enjoyed the […]

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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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