Year in Review: The Best of 2016

With another year behind us, we’d like to know what you liked best on the blog in 2016 and what you’d most like to see in the new year. Let us know in the comments!

Here are some of our top picks:

• Should You Only “Edit What You Know?” by Sue Archer. Should we only take on projects that are squarely in our comfort zones?
• How to Become an Editor, by Rosemary Shipton. Years ago, we all became editors through a kind of apprentice system.
• Perilous Punctuation: The Email Salutation, by Frances Peck. How to punctuate an email salutation is a nicety that only grammar geeks would fret over. But fret we do.
• Wasted Words: Recasting Punctuation, by Wilf Popoff. Clever people are fretting that texters no longer talk to each other. Nonsense, say others.
• Zoom, Zoom: Rev Up Your Editing, by Paul Cipywnyk. How quickly can you edit and still do a good job?
• Twitter for Wordies, by Lori Burwash. Make the most of your Twitter time by following these tips.
• Writing Wrongs in Fiction, by Melva McLean. In a historical piece, there’s always a tradeoff between what’s real and what’s true.
• The Ongoing Demise of English, by James Harbeck. Stern voices over the centuries have taught us that English just isn’t spoken as well as it used to be…and it never has been.
• Editing Niches: Back to School With Thesis Editing, by Cathy McPhalen. Do you include thesis editing in your repertoire?
• The Inner Editor: Introvert, Know Thyself, by Virginia Durksen. Introverts are far more varied than the handy label implies.

And here’s the rest of the 2016 lineup, filled with insights, humour and quick-reference tips:

• Wherefore Pleaseth Archaic English? — James Harbeck
• Commission of Inquiry Reports: A Special Kind of Editing — Rosemary Shipton
• English Editing in Quebec: Has Quebec Caught on to Plain Language? — Dwain Richardson
• What Do Words Really Mean? — Victoria Neufeldt
• Wasted Words: The Origins of Texting — Wilf Popoff
• Mourning the Demise of Newsroom Copy Editors — Paul Cipywnyk
• Forensique, vous connaissez? — Dominique Fortier
• More Honoured in the Breach or the Observance? — James Harbeck
• English Editing in Quebec: Avoiding Wordiness — Dwain Richardson
• Quand les noms perdent leur latin — Christian Bergeron
• Crowdfunding for Writers and Editors — Greg Ioannou
• Wasted Words: Quarrelling With Pronouns — Wilf Popoff
• Basic Tools for Productive Editing — Paul Cipywnyk
• Adresser — Dominique Fortier
• How to Become a Medical Editor — Katharine O’Moore Klopf
• Film Adaptation Is Just Another Kind of Editing — Melva McLean
• A Whole Nother Thing — James Harbeck
• English Editing in Quebec: All About Style (Part Two) — Dwain Richardson
• Mentoring — Rosemary Shipton
• Omitting Periods? It’s About Genres. — James Harbeck
• Movie Review: Genius — Melva McLean
• English Editing in Quebec: All About Gender — Dwain Richardson
• Time to Put the “Free” Back in “Freelance” — Susan Glickman
• Wasted Words: Surviving Overkill — Wilf Popoff
• Know Your Subject, Watch That Continuity — Paul Cipywnyk
• Oh, My Aching Eyeballs! — Sue Archer
• Shorten It! — Rosemary Shipton
• Being Intercultural: The Language of Health — Zanne Cameron
• The Inner Editor: The Voice and Its Vices — Virginia Durksen
• Ours Is Not to Reason Why — Or Is It? — Paul Buckingham
• Those Unpublishable Manuscripts — Rosemary Shipton
• What’s in a Name? — Melva McLean
• Editing at the Legislature: A Look Inside the Hansard Office — Sharon Skage
• Wasted Words: Channelling Orwell — Wilf Popoff
• Where the Ink Meets the Road — Insights From Working in a Bookstore — Paul Cipywnyk
• Keeping Up With the (Editorial) Times — Frances Peck
• Review: The Complete Canadian Book Editor by Leslie Vermeer — Sue Archer
• Editing Technical Instructional Material: Become the Student — Tracey Anderson
• Calling Them What They Want — James Harbeck
• The Inner Editor: December Is the Cruellest — and Shortest — Month — Virginia Durksen

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