Category: Editing
17
Jun
Unmasking the Nature of Technical Editing
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If you feel you don’t have the necessary skills for technical editing—if the mere idea of it bores you or intimidates you—know that there is...
17
Jun
Verb Type and Noun Phrase Direct Object Shift: What an Editor Must Know
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Editors can learn how to place a direct object noun phrase within a sentence based on noun-phrase length and verb type. When you are editing...
17
Jun
“Repair Processes Initiated”: Why Editors Should Choose Gender-Neutral Job Titles
by Staff
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The brain interprets gendered job titles paired with the wrong gender as a discrepancy, making the reader fumble, fixate, and reread. You are an editor....
16
Jun
3 Editing Problems that Technology Can Fix
by Staff
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In editing, author-editor communication can go wrong in many ways. But editing digitally can minimize the risk. Authors can always find something wrong with their...
16
Jun
Collaborating with Authors as Technical Editors
by Staff
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“The more collaborative and complex the project (such as a proposal, a brochure, or an annual report), the earlier the editor should participate.” —Carol Gerich...
16
Jun
When Newsrooms Cut Copy Editors
by Staff
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Copy editors are a valuable resource to prevent the risk and cost of reprinting due to errors. Between 2002 and 2012, the workforce of copy...
15
Jun
How to Use Corpora to Edit Technical Articles Effectively and Accurately
by Staff
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Corpora are quickly becoming mainstream in the field of linguistics. But can they help us become better technical editors as well? A corpus is a...
13
Jun
Editing for Relevance: 8 Usage Principles Worth Remembering
by Staff
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Professional writers evaluated twenty usage principles that editors rated unimportant, and the results show that at least eight are still worth emphasizing. Many editors classify...
13
Jun
4 Ways Editors Can Improve the Author-Editor Relationship
by Staff
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In order to establish good relationships with our authors, we must first understand how they perceive us. We all know the importance of developing a...
13
Jun
Being an Unconventional Editor, and Why That’s Okay
by Staff
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The editor described in academic literature and the real-life editor are two different people. If you choose to deviate from the prescribed formula, your editing...
