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swcc Science Writers Welcome

swcc Science Writers Welcome

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Introducing the Quad

What Do Editors Do, Anyway?

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“No” Your Way to Better Work

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Q&A: What are “queries”? [in editing & proofreading]

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Indian Copyeditors Forum

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Accessibility Laws & Resources in Publishing

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Guide to Writing Copyright Statements

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Publishing Workflow

Grade-level Science Vocabulary List for Science Writers and Editors

Grade-level Science Vocabulary List for Science Writers and Editors

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

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How to Start a Style Sheet

A style sheet is a record of style choices made as the editor works on a document. They are usually

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Using the PDF Markup Comments List: One User’s Experience

I am very pleased to release the first guest post on this blog, by my colleague Dawn Hunter, a freelance editor and

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Productivity Rates in Editing

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

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Why the Book isn’t Ready

Why isn’t the manuscript ready? Because every book is more work than anyone intended.            

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Create a Checklist of Your PDF Mark-up in 2 Clicks

In my previous post of this series, I showed you how to use the “text edits” tool to mark up

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Edit Tools for Marking up PDFs in Acrobat

In the previous post of this series, I discussed drawing tools, changing properties, and using text boxes to mark up

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Key Mark-Up Techniques for Proofreading PDFs

Key Mark-Up Techniques for Proofreading PDFs

Last post, I discussed using a stylus* or custom stamps to mark-up changes to PDF page proofs. In this post,

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Basic PDF Mark-Up for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

Basic PDF Mark-Up for Copy Editors and Proofreaders

There’s a new post for Adobe Acrobat (Reader) DC. [Update Jan 10, 2013: added demo video using Acrobat Reader XI.] 

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5 Keyboard Shortcuts You Didn’t Know You Needed

Keyboard shortcuts are just about the quickest route to efficiency for anyone who works with words. (I dare say, they’re

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