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Understanding Metadata

Metadata means “data about data.” In the book sense, that means the data that describes the book. It exists in

“But you’re missing words!” “But everyone knows what they are.” It’s a legit grammatical structure. Why the grammatical ellipse works

Do you really need training? How to tell. When to get it. And where to get it. Today, in my How

Are you forever the rescue editor? How did you work your way to more reasonable deadlines? I’ve been working to get

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

More checklists! Today’s is for editing graphs, in [the now defunct] “How To” column at Copyediting.com. Now available in the ebook, Getting

Another 29-point checklist in today’s How To column at Copyediting.com. This one for editing diagrams.

You create content marketing when you create content — typically for a website — in order to:

Having a “constant” applied to a comment so you can refer to it is pretty useful. In this post at

This one thing has brought life to every tech trick in my How To column at Copyediting.com.