Do typos hurt sales? Are the potential losses worth the cost of editing? A colleague recently called for a defensible
Category: editing
Three reasons editors and proofreaders need to buy a PDF editor, and only three
There are a few things that the free Adobe Reader XI PDF software cannot do. But only a few. For
Checklist for Editing, Canadian Style
The Canadian Style says a checklist “will help you to cover all pertinent facets of the writing process and to
Think of an Editor
The national association of editors* started rolling out the results of their rebranding exercise with a new logo and look
There’s a mistake in my copy!
Perfection is not the realm of humans. How to help your clients understand this, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com.
Links OTW, Aug 9–15
I had a really long waiting room stay this week, so I caught up on a reading backlog. Lucky you:
When Lives Depend on the Words
How to deal with the emotional and legal risks of working on words that could save, or cost, or
Links OTW, Aug 2–8
Resources I find that relate to copy editing scripts and screenplays for film, TV, video, podcast and all spoken words. There’s another post devoted to video games.
Stop Quotation Mark Abuse with this Simple Test
Today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com, I reprise and expand my advice on scare quotes. (Tweet this post by
Ten Signs of “Lifted” Text
Ten telltales that will alert you to the need to “freshen up” some of the prose, or seek out the proper citation and permissions, or at least clean up the formatting.