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Ten Signs of “Lifted” Text

Ten telltales that will alert you to the need to “freshen up” some of the prose — reblogged by ACES.

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

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

Fair dealing exemptions to copyright law in Canada, a free online tool to tell if your use needs permission, and

How is editing in Canada different from editing everywhere else? Well, Tim Hortons. It’s our donut chain. I mean cafe.

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

guest post by Danielle Arbuckle Every industry has its own language, and finance is no exception. Some people may

Every now and then, someone asks me if there is a method to my editing. Do I go from “big

Or, How to write science at a level kids can understand. Science vocabulary, by provincial curriculum grade level Children’s writers turn

How long will it take to edit this? The question of how long an edit will take comes up a