Have you put your foot in your editorial mouth simply because the subject was so foreign? How to query without showing your clueless or insulting the
Year: 2018
How to Edit Topics You’re Clueless About
You’d never find an editor for that piece on liquid metal cooled fast nuclear reactors if you needed them to be an expert in the
Tricks to Get Your House Style Used
In my final conversation with Carol Harrison in my How To column at Copyediting.com, we talk about how she went about getting FRAS staff to actually use
Foundations of House Style
I continue my conversation today with Carol Harrison, about her experience creating and implementing a house style guide at Financial Reporting & Assurance Standards (FRAS) Canada—the
How & Why to Create a House Style
There are over 1570 pages of style points combined between CMOS, AP, and APA.* And there are at least a half-dozen other well-respected and much
Do Fans Actually Make You Hotter?
Ever been told that a fan actually heats up a room? It’s not quite a myth, but it is a moot point. Today on Sci-Why,
Creativity: Getting It and Using It
Creativity isn’t for sale on Amazon, but you can get it. Find out how from a session at the IABC conference in Montreal, today in
Have Edit, Will Travel: Hardware for the Mobile Office
Being tied to the desk is so last century. Get mobile with the hardware list in my premium article, now free at Copyediting.com: Have Edit, Will
Your Plan for Earning Credibility
How to earn a longer leash at work—republished Jan 1, 2019 at ACES (originally in my How To column at Copyediting.com).
Conference Report: IABC
A summary of the June 2018 IABC conference in Montreal, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com.