News Roundup

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.

Featured Topic: Working as a Copyeditor

Are copyeditor prescriptivists? Nitpickers? Help John McIntyre find the right word. Then check out these tips for working more efficiently and wrestling Word’s comment balloons into proper shape.

Featured Topic: Style

Today’s News Roundup looks at style: how periods create an author’s writing style, when to use ibid., and AMA’s style for dealing with footnotes positioned next to each other.

Today’s Topic: Freelancing

Yes, freelancers, you can save for your retirement. You can also give your clients what they want, no matter how long you’ve been in the game, and there are rules you should break. Three lessons for freelancers in today’s News Roundup.

Featured Topic: Punctuation

Get your Friday going with lessons in fixing comma splices and dealing with multiple sentence-ending punctuation, plus punctuation that’s moved into word status.

Featured Topic: Editorial Methods

We can all benefit from tips that helps us work more efficiently and effectively. Today’s News Roundup has three ideas for you.

Featured Topic: Usage Problems

You’ve seen reflexive pronouns used as subject or object pronouns; should you stet them? Also in today’s News Roundup, we look at the usage of that vs. which and any more vs. anymore.

Featured Topic: The Business of Copyediting

We copyeditors are so focused on our jobs that we sometimes forget the business concerns of editing. Today, get some ideas for training, sprucing up your office, and easing financial concerns.

Featured Topic: Flexibility of Language

English is a wonderfully, frustratingly flexible language. Three articles that look at how far it can bend before it breaks.

Featured Topic: Getting Work

Do cover letters work? Should you subcontract? And how does information about your competitors help you find freelance work? Find out in today’s News Roundup.