Category: Editing
05
Mar
Online Editing: The Effects of Technology on Future Editors
by Staff
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“Higher education institutions need to give their students experience drafting, editing, and commenting on each other’s work online.” —Zimmerman and Yohon (2002) I am currently...
02
Mar
What Writing Police Reports Can Teach Us about Technical Editing
by Staff
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Police reports can teach us a lot about the importance of understanding genre in technical editing. I’ve watched enough American cop shows to know that...
03
Feb
Hedging Our Way to Better Results
by Staff
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Editors using feminine language strategies tend to be more likely to get authors to revise their work. Our goal as editors is to help authors...
08
Jan
How to Use Episode Structures to Make Readers Think
by Staff
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Help your authors’ stories become more literary and engaging by studying episode structures in literary fiction. What makes something “literary”? This is a question...
05
Dec
When to Follow Your Intuition Instead of Prescriptive Rules
by Staff
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“When prescriptive grammar violates organic grammar, bad things can happen during the reading process.” —Bradford R. Connatser (2004, 265) To editors, it can sometimes seem...
09
Nov
Back to the Basics: The Process of Professional Editing
by Staff
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It’s time to come back to the basics: How do real-life, professional editors edit? In all of the research done on editing, surprisingly little has...
17
Sep
Which Editing Mistakes Could Cost You a Job
by Staff
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Are you looking for an editing job? Do you want to know which editing mistakes will automatically disqualify you from the position? Then this is...
20
Aug
Creating Your Own Code of Editing Ethics
by Staff
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As editors, we will come across many ethical situations. How can we best be prepared to respond to them? When we receive a piece to...
01
Aug
Unblock Editor’s Block
by Staff
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Receiving constructive criticism from others before you revise your work can help you find a better way to approach a subject. As editors, we can...
01
Jul
Editing and Research: Beware of Burning Out
by Staff
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Taking on more responsibility may not yield higher productivity. A heavy load might affect your career in the long run. Journal editors quickly learn how...