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Whose punctuation is it, anyway?

How to decide when punctuation goes inside the quotation marks. Today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com. Spoiler: Canadian

Captions are a weak link in the quality assurance chain, being something most people skim or skip while reviewing a

Guest post by Rachel Stuckey Vizzini didn’t have much of an imagination. He couldn’t conceive of the implausible, possible, or

Word probably converts your (C) to a © automatically, but what about the other symbols? Learn how to access them

Updated May 2020, because internet. There are some punctuation marks that can make prose look absurd — especially with overuse.

In my first post of the “marking up PDFs” series, I showed the many uses of stamps in Acrobat. Setting

Scared of macros? Here are three alternatives, today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. You can learn more about them in

Anything you can take a screen shot of can be marked up as a PDF. Here is a quick demo

Thanks to social media, I got insights from sessions I couldn’t clone myself to be in, and took notes and

This handout is from my presentation at the EAC 2014 conference. Get a printable PDF version here. Mark up any