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Getting Work in Academic Editing

posted on January 9, 2017 by Adrienne Montgomerie

Getting Work in Academic Editing

This continues our series about editing academic works. These include articles for academic journals, theses, and monographs. It’s niche work, if you can get it. And you can get it, if you try. Who Hires Academic Editors Individuals and corporations hire editors for academic works. All stages … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, How To Tagged With: academic, American Medical Writers Association, articles, Career, copyediting, copyediting.com, Editing Nonfiction, Editorial Methods, How-To, journals, Katharine O’Moore-Klopf, Kristin Harper, Marketing, National Association of Science Writers, niche, papers, theses

Academic Editing, Beyond Language

posted on December 19, 2016 by Adrienne Montgomerie

Academic Editing, Beyond Language

This continues our series about editing academic works, which include articles for academic journals, theses, and monographs. Beyond Language Copyeditors and proofreaders need a good grounding in grammar, and that means more than the hobgoblin-filled education that we get in school. A seasoned … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, How To Tagged With: academic, Career, copyediting, copyediting.com, Editing Nonfiction, Editorial Methods, How-To, niche

Academic Editing Basics

posted on December 5, 2016 by Adrienne Montgomerie

Academic Editing Basics

Editing theses and journal papers is a very common entry-point to the profession of editing. This may be because editing is a required step in the process for these materials. Or it may be because editing one-another’s papers (and peer review) is part of the culture of these publications. “I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, How To Tagged With: academic, ama, apa, Career, copyediting, copyediting.com, Editing Nonfiction, Editorial Methods, How-To, journal, mls, monograph, niche, style guides

How to Cushion Author Queries

posted on November 9, 2015 by Adrienne Montgomerie

Professional writers develop a thick skin; they learn not to take suggestions or criticisms as attacks on their self-worth. Eventually, the pro might even come to see a gentle query style as pandering, prodding the editor to “get to the point.” But that skin is slow to grow. Along the way, writers … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Editing, Editing Fiction, Editing Nonfiction, Editorial, How-To, Methods

Camel Case in Canada, Eh?

posted on September 18, 2015 by Adrienne Montgomerie

Initial case, Title Case, and Sentence case are all headline styles that editors are accustomed to using. Enter the digital age, the age of URLs, and we find ourselves dealing with a new creature of capitalization: CamelCase. Camel Case is the term given to those trade names that have mid-word … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Advertising, Art of the Headline, Canadian, Canadian Editing, Capitalization, Copy, Editing Nonfiction, Eh, Style, style guides, trademarks

Tools for Correcting the Eggcorns

posted on September 9, 2015 by Adrienne Montgomerie

All tolled, idioms are something you hear more often than read. What makes sense and your head (such as the tally of items) maybe far from the actual saying (all told). In the simplest sense of the term, eggcorns include instances such as would of instead of would have. “Excuse me, while I kiss … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian, Canadian Editing, Confusable, Editing Fiction, Editing Nonfiction, Eh, s Content Specific Editing, Usage

Checklist for Citations and Reference Lists

posted on September 2, 2015 by Adrienne Montgomerie

References are the pain of the editing process. At least they are for most editors. They can take as long to edit the citations in a document as it does to edit the document itself. Formatting is picky and slightly different for each style guide; information is out of order or missing; and citations … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Canadian, Canadian Editing, Content Specific Editing, Editing Nonfiction, Editorial Methods, Eh, style guides

Editing Is Not Math

posted on August 18, 2015 by Andy Hollandbeck

I think all editors, at some point in their careers, go through a "Grammar Police" phase during which they offer unsolicited (and sometimes unsubstantiated) advice about how to "correctly" use a particular phrase, pronounce a particular word, or use a particular idiom. I know I did. It's an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Editing, Editing Fiction, Editing Nonfiction, Editorial Methods, Grammar, Hyphens, Technical Editing, Training

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