If you are even a minor word nerd, you have probably thought about the dictionary and how it gets made.
Category: publishing
How & Why Editors Make a Figures Manuscript
When a product contains illustrations, graphs, and other visuals, a separate file containing them and their related instructions is submitted
The Editors’ Guide to Confidentiality: Essential Security for Protecting Clients’ Words
Editing isn’t just about typo protection. Data security and content (intellectual property, or IP) privacy are core standards in editing
Editing: It’s about accuracy, not just typos
Editing is about a lot more than typos. Strong arguments can be made that unless an editor (or proofreader) has
Editing: It’s about Meaning & Sense
Editing is about far more than finding typos. We already saw that spelling & grammar make up less than 0.1%
Editing: It’s more than typos
Of the ~150 Professional Editorial Standards, only about 6 have to do with spelling & grammar (in yellow). We can
Future Forward
References to the keynote address at the Editors Canada conference in Vancouver, June 2024.
Ethical Issues in Editing: Professional Standards
As professional editors, we follow so many more standards than those of grammar and clear communication. And it’s not just publishing law, either. Here’s a roundup of worldwide ethical standards that editors follow.
Sweeping Update to Canadian Professional Editorial Standards for Editor-types
This revision of Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards was a major overhaul. Get the summary and links to more in-depth analysis here.
7 Ways to Get Style Sheet Buy-in
You’ve got style, but how do you get all the content creators to follow the guide!?