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Create a Figures Log

Whether because the team is small or because the process is compressing, tracking figures can fall into the editor’s domain.

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

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

Check out the newer post about the 2024 update to the PES. Editors Canada has just made the third update

What they are, why they matter, and how to use them Readability assessments (or indexes) aren’t getting much love because

Sci/Why is a blog by children’s science writers who aim to help parents, teachers and librarians discover the wide world of

When you submit an edited file, include a transmittal note. What to say in that note is the topic of

How do you deal with a writer who can’t stop writing, even when the manuscript has moved on in the

“Really, again?” “How is this even possible?” “Huh?” Reblogged at ACES, we look at wording editors can use to soften their exasperation and