Tag: Copy Editing
07
Apr
Do Writers Feel Pressured to Accept Your Edits?
by Emma Campbell
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Creating a healthy author-editor relationship is essential for ensuring that published material maintains accuracy and value and that authors feel respected. The relationship between an...
28
Nov
How Important Is Copyediting in Online News?
by Kenzie Holbrook
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As news has shifted from paper to online over the past several years, copyediting has fallen through the cracks. Why has this happened? As the...
06
Apr
Effective Quality Assurance in User-Generated Content
by Staff
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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...
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...
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...
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
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...
08
Jun
Why You Need to Update Your Style Guide
by Staff
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An updated style guide helps establish a brand and keep all writers and editors in your company consistent. If you write or edit for any...