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Learning Opportunities for the Mid-Career Editor

Take charge of your professional development as a mid-career editor with these innovative DIY learning strategies I’ll examine over the

Picks from the interwebs this week for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: going freelance mid-career (case studies) sentence diagraming guide

Hey kids, notice that the average hourly fee for proofreading is $63 for those with 5–14 years’ experience? It’s only

Red flags, red flags,What’cha gonna do?What’cha gonna do,when they come for you? Today, in my How To column at the now-defunct Copyediting.com,

Picks from the interwebs this week for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: cat V editor, and some fur-less purring to

Announcement of the updated guide to Editing Canadian English (ECE3) today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com. The guide is

Picks from the interwebs this week for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: science of why a second monitor is the

Italicizing ballet terms because they’re French? Oh no, you don’t! Today, in my Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com.

During the seasonal onslaught of retrospectives, Ben Zimmer predicted new words that 2015 will bring, and pondered why some never

Picks from the interwebs this week (the second week of 2015 already!) for my word- and tech-nerd peeps: practical steps