23
Jun
Editing Within Limits: Navigating Trademark Concerns While Editing
by Hannah Hubbard
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Laws and codes may create concerns when editors edit text with trademarked products or services. What can editors do to mitigate these concerns? The editing...
20
Jun
Think You Have the Same Expectations as Your Editor? Think Again!
by Michael Pulsipher
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Worldwide connections cause postgraduates and editors to work together from different countries. Therefore, expectations need to be clarified from the very beginning. Haidee Kruger and...
20
Jun
This Philosopher’s Use of the Em Dash Challenges Punctuation As We Know It
by Hannah Ackerman
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The work of one world-renowned German philosopher from the 1800s uses em dashes in unusual and innovative ways, challenging the rules of punctuation over a...
19
Jun
ChatGPT, Editing, and You
by Parker Cook
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As ChatGPT becomes more prevalent and developed, editors may be able to utilize it to make their lives easier. ChatGPT is a hot topic these...
18
Jun
Peer Editing to the Rescue!
by Hope Jones
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With teachers feeling overstretched and overworked, peer editing became a vital tool used in the development of EFL students in Bogotá, Colombia. But just what...
18
Jun
Can “Eye” Get Some Feedback?
by Marie Lefler
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Can eye tracking and keystroke logging tell us more about how we write and how we can write better? Writing is a difficult task for...
18
Jun
Word Salad: When Machines Mess with Meaning
by MJ Christensen
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Technology is becoming more involved in the writing and editing processes. Are we prepared to stop it when it oversteps its boundaries? Computer-originating translation errors...
18
Jun
Picking Up Pens: The Prosocial Power of Transportive Fiction
by Karly Lay
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Ever wondered whether fiction has the power to influence real-world behavior? One study that tested participants’ willingness to help pick up pens suggests that the...
18
Jun
Help in Self-Publishing
by Morgan Heath
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Writers and readers all want the same thing: to hear a story be told. But it can be extremely challenging to get new stories out...
17
Jun
Punctuation by Genre: A Corpus Linguistics Study
by Sariah Roulstone
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Punctuation may seem like a purely technical part of writing, but recent studies suggest that genres use punctuation differently. Of the various stylistic choices that...
