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Checklists: saving your bacon and bringing it home too (podcast)

Checklists are the focus of this episode, in which I expand on one of my posts from the now-defunct Copyediting: explaining how checklists

Webster set out to simplify spelling when he wrote his American dictionary. Why do Canadians cling to complicated rules and

In this 5 min podcast I explore scientific evidence for what kind of error correction rate is humanly feasible. We’ll look

Rewritten for the audio format, and with a new quote or two: here is my first foray into podcasting in

Butterick’s Practical Typography Though the designer creates the page templates and overall product design, it is the copy editor who

Let me clarify: How many errors can an editor let stand? 5% Pulled that number out of the air. (Serious

This blog now has dozens of posts that will help the new starter. Click the Starter Kit for Editors category

Editing a PDF? List of keyboard shortcuts for Acrobat 8, 9, X Acrobat XI PDF XChange

UPDATE July 4, 2014: Prices (all), removed one that is no longer available, and added two options (*) that have

When a client wants a proof (test print) proofread in a hurry, focus on the weakest links: titles – cover,