09
Apr
The Truth about Peer Editing
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Peer editing is a common part of the curriculum for writing students, but does it actually teach the students anything? Studies say yes. If you’ve...
06
Apr
Effective Quality Assurance in User-Generated Content
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Is there a place for editors in user-generated content (UGC) online? If so, how can they effectively ensure quality? Social media platforms have started to...
27
Mar
The Most Memorable Writing
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A study conducted about semantics and syntax teaches us how to treat important information and make it the most memorable. In technical writing it is...
05
Mar
Online Editing: The Effects of Technology on Future Editors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
03
Oct
Tired of “Safe” Typefaces? Letterforms J-a-g-e-n to the Rescue
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“Using type well is an art, but the principles underlying the uses of type are also based on research.” —C. D. Rude (2002) in Longman’s...
