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Month: April 2015

Editing the Visuals, with ECE Editors

Editing the Visuals, with ECE Editors

Sign up to receive notification of my fall 2016 online course in editing visuals. How are the word specialists (editors) supposed to know if a

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Graph Guidelines

Graph Guidelines

Graphs can quickly convey relationships and trends between and among data in ways that a data table or text narrative struggles to achieve. Each type

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How to Become the Next Big Thing

How to Become the Next Big Thing

To become the next big thing, begin at home, then go there, then over there, then way over there. Today, I show that this can apply

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Editing Multi-contributor Collections

Editing Multi-contributor Collections

When editing writing compiled from dozens of people, an editor needs to play the role of choir conductor, bringing the voices together for a consistent

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Editing Visual Components

Editing Visual Components

Visuals aren’t just those pretty things that push the words aside. Graphs, charts, diagrams, photos, and other illustrations help readers make sense of complex ideas.

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Edit Disturbing Stories Without Trauma

Edit Disturbing Stories Without Trauma

“Sometimes you have to edit disturbing topics, and they can get to you.” Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com I share tips journalists use to mitigate

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LOTW 16, 2015

LOTW 16, 2015

My pick of the web for the week ending April 17, 2015. [View the story “LOTW 16, 2015” on Storify]

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Writers to Honour Canadian Editors

Writers to Honour Canadian Editors

Best Editor is an award given annually by the Professional Writers’ Association of Canada. Learn more in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com today. Nominations close April

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How to Ask a Client to Fill in for Delays

How to Ask a Client to Fill in for Delays

Today I talk about squeezing more work from a delayed client without sounding whiny, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. Thanks to Amy Schneider — freelance editor

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Rites of Canadian Spring (Vocabulary)

Rites of Canadian Spring (Vocabulary)

I explain a few rites of Canadian spring vocabulary today, in my special vocabulary post at Copyediting.com.

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