Right Angels and Polo Bears – adventures in editing

The Editors’ Guide to Confidentiality: Essential Security for Protecting Clients’ Words

Editing isn’t just about typo protection. Data security and content (intellectual property, or IP) privacy are core standards in editing

Can’t get clients to raise your pay? Tired of disastrous prose and rush-rush deadlines? Time to work on the client

“My advice to anyone starting out freelancing?” says editor Barb Adamski, “Double your rates at least once in your career.”

For this entry in the series, I give Grammarly a chance to edit its own article on “30 Common Grammar

Editing the references can take as long as it does to edit the document itself. Formatting is picky and slightly

Editing is about a lot more than typos. Strong arguments can be made that unless an editor (or proofreader) has

Editing is about far more than finding typos. We already saw that spelling & grammar make up less than 0.1%

Of the ~150 Professional Editorial Standards, only about 6 have to do with spelling & grammar (in yellow). We can

ChatGPT 4o (not truly AI, but called so) can now analyze PDFs and images, so I uploaded this small-town newspaper

References to the keynote address at the Editors Canada conference in Vancouver, June 2024.