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(When) You Need Permission

(updated 24 June 2020) You need to ask permission—almost always—to use pictures or words that are not your own creation.

After the energizing effect of being surrounded by people who get the “editorial you” you may need a withdrawal regiment. Get some tips

Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I talk about coaching as a PD option. Coaching is like mentoring, with more

Question marks can be optional, eh? The Canadian Style (guide) shows us that sometimes questioning words are actually forming a

Today, in my extra post at Copyediting.com, I speak with Duncan McKenzie who edits words in TV and puzzles.

Cranking out 25 custom e-newsletters is the weekly job of Canadian editor Katherine Radin (pictured) over at MultiView Canada. Today,

Models of mentoring that will help you learn and develop your editing career from new- or mid- or even senior-level. Today,

Today, in my special Canadian, Eh? post for National Grammar Day, at Copyediting.com, I look at the role of commas

“If you want to know something well, teach it to someone else,” the saying goes. Today, in my How To column at

“There is no freedom to read if you can’t afford to buy books to read,” Laura May said in explaining