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Month: June 2014

How to have your vacation and clients too

How to have your vacation and clients too

It’s vacation season. How do you manage clients’ expectations that you’ll be available whenever they want you? Six ideas today in my How To column at Copyediting.com. “With

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Links OTW, June 21–27

Links OTW, June 21–27

Amazing stuff from the interwebs this week. A little lighter than it has been. I blame “summer vacation.” So long productivity until a couple months

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Checklist for Editing Captions

Checklist for Editing Captions

Captions are a weak link in the quality assurance chain, being something most people skim or skip while reviewing a document. This makes checking captions

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“You keep using that word…”: The Princess Bride and Effective Word Choice

“You keep using that word…”: The Princess Bride and Effective Word Choice

Guest post by Rachel Stuckey Vizzini didn’t have much of an imagination. He couldn’t conceive of the implausible, possible, or even highly probable occurring if

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How to Insert Symbols in Word

How to Insert Symbols in Word

Word probably converts your (C) to a © automatically, but what about the other symbols? Learn how to access them today, in my How To column at

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LOTW — 14–20 June

LOTW — 14–20 June

The online gems that I don’t want to forget from this week.

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State Your Rate with Confidence (podcast)

State Your Rate with Confidence (podcast)

To state your fee with confidence, you need to practice, pose, and use project fees. The scientific evidence behind this “fake it ’til you make

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Where Is the Next Trend in Publishing?

Where Is the Next Trend in Publishing?

Last week I shared advice about unplanning your career, gleaned from David Hayes at the EAC conference in Toronto. The week before that, we heard

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Simple punctuation test for “effective” writing!

Simple punctuation test for “effective” writing!

Updated May 2020, because internet. There are some punctuation marks that can make prose look absurd — especially with overuse. Scare quotes and exclamation marks

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Common snag with Adobe Reader for proofreading

Common snag with Adobe Reader for proofreading

By far the number one problem my students have with Adobe Reader is not realizing that a “light” version of the program is opening files

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