News Roundup

Featured Topic: Grammar Fun

Is the burial in a cemetery or at one? Can you start a sentence with important? Today’s News Roundup tackles grammar questions and lets you test your lie/lay proficiency.

Featured Topic: Word Stories

Will the new usage of slash stick around and become acceptable? Why is it a spelling bee? And what’s the story of the literary insult syncophant?

Featured Topic: Looking for Work

Today's News Roundup is brought to you by the number 5: 5 ways to network better using LinkedIn, 5 ways to find clients using Google Plus, and 5 errors to avoid during the interview process.

Featured Topic: Language Theory and Terms

Discussions about language are more productive and meaningful when everyone uses similar terms and definitions. Here are a few recent articles that add to the discussion of what constitutes grammar, style, and Standard English.

Featured Topic: Usage

So many usage rules, so little time! Today we examine the shift in common idioms, singular they, and how of sneaks into sentences when we shift the word order.

Featured Topic: Efficiency in Editing

I’d love to write you an in-depth column on how to edit more efficiently, but I don’t have the time to write it—and I’ll bet you wouldn’t have time to read it. Instead, three quick reads that will speed up your tasks.

Featured Topic: Words, Words, Words

We aim to keep your vocabulary strong, copyeditors. Today, three timely word lessons.

Featured Topic: Tips for Using Word

Love it or hate it, Microsoft Word is a copyeditor’s most-used software. Learn how to run it on your iPad, insert line numbers in a document, and how to store Word files in the cloud.

Featured Topic: Language Theory

Though it sometimes causes headaches, copyeditors need a little language theory now and again to keep up with changes. In today’s News Roundup: why you can keep the reason why, the problem with the phrase “correct grammar,” and the fallacy of those ultraconserved words.

Featured Topic: Tech Advice

It used to be an editor’s tools were paper and pen(cil)s. The world is more complicated these days. In today’s News Roundup: how to edit documents on an iPad, why you should buy Adobe software now, and how to add a second monitor to your setup.