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5 Tips for Editing Your Own Work

Five brain hacks for tricking yourself into seeing text with fresh eyes are covered in this episode, an adaptation of

Simperial volume, today, on the Canadian, Eh? column at Copyediting.com. This is the second half of last week’s podcast, in print

I think some Canadians hold tight to Fahrenheit temperatures because it lets them say it’s been above zero for a

Though I’d much rather announce “I weigh 70 kg,” metric hasn’t entirely stuck in Canada. We use a simperial system that I’ve

The soft and hard of converting imperial measurements to metric for a Canadian audience are covered in this episode, an

As digital products take over the publishing field, copy editors and other publishing pros will find that adding basic HTML

When footnotes are a formatting nightmare, Note Stripper saves the day. End notes too. Also, Adrienne sings “soft edit” to help

Thou shalt smitest those who wouldst alter thine language most sacred. Or, move on to something more consequential; you’re standing

The stages of editing are discussed in this episode, but they’re not the stages you’re used to (one is depicted here). It’s

Some weeks the great stuff floods in. This was one of those weeks. And my podcast is super late! Language-Change