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Who Writes for Science Centres and Museums, and How?

Who writes the words in museums and science centres? The words are everywhere: on the walls, in the guide books, in their

Word is not a layout tool, though it often gets used that way, especially in a business environment. In those

Did you know that punctuation “rules” for vertical lists vary according to which style guide is in use? Or that

Whether you are building an editing business or launching your career, these offerings will light a fire in your heart

It doesn’t work like Track Changes in Word, but in my Aug–Sept Technically Speaking column in the Copyediting newsletter, I explain how to

More checklists! Today’s is for editing graphs, in [the now defunct] “How To” column at Copyediting.com. Now available in the ebook, Getting

Another 29-point checklist in today’s How To column at Copyediting.com. This one for editing diagrams.

A 29-point checklist for making sure that the tables in your manuscript are edited consistently and to style, in Getting

Having a “constant” applied to a comment so you can refer to it is pretty useful. In this post at

Sometimes an editor needs to extract the comments that have been left in a Word file. In this post at Copyediting.com,