Updated May 2020, because internet. There are some punctuation marks that can make prose look absurd — especially with overuse.
Author: Adrienne (scieditor)
An editor of words, mostly those in instructional materials — and mostly on technical subjects such as science.
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
Stamps: Acrobat Tips for Proofreader’s Markup of PDFs
In my first post of the “marking up PDFs” series, I showed the many uses of stamps in Acrobat. Setting
Three alternatives to macros
Scared of macros? Here are three alternatives, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. You can learn more about them in
How to change font size in Word’s Reviewing Pane Sidebar
Tired eyes, tiny type? Bump up the font size in the Reviewing Pane to read Comments and tracked changes with
Best resources from the week of June 7-13
Being a new convert to Storify and the easy with which it aggregates content and displays it prettily, I am
Mark up Title Corrections for Video Using PDF
Anything you can take a screen shot of can be marked up as a PDF. Here is a quick demo
Successful Career Unplanning
Half of you are probably so busy meeting deadlines (or watching them woosh by) that you haven’t even planned
Multiple Monitors for Editing Efficiency
Why are multiple monitor screens more efficient? It might only take a few seconds to sort through the dozen
EAC 2014 — editors’ conference report
Thanks to social media, I got insights from sessions I couldn’t clone myself to be in, and took notes and