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Editor [and] AI: The Ethics of Using AI

Editor [and] AI: The Ethics of Using AI

You would be incensed if spellcheck weren’t used as part of quality control, so why is using AI any different? Some questions, viewpoints and policies to consider are rounded up here.

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Ethical Issues in Editing: What the Professional Standards Say

Ethical Issues in Editing: What the Professional Standards Say

It’s not all shifting commas and eye colour, in editing. Pros are alert to myriad ethical and legal issues. Here are some of the standards we work to.

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Niche Knowledge for Medical Editing

Niche Knowledge for Medical Editing

Unless [editors are] trained to work in that industry, that [industry] knowledge can be like the 90 percent of an iceberg that lies hidden beneath the surface. You

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Seen in the Manuscript

Seen in the Manuscript

Should an editor share that difficult or terrific bit from the edit in progress? Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I hear from some editing instructors

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Editing the Hooey: When You Don’t Respect the Material

Editing the Hooey: When You Don’t Respect the Material

When should you and when should you not edit ludicrous materials? And we don’t mean the funny-haha stuff. Does the editor’s code of ethics preclude the

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Should You Release a Writer to the Wilds?

Should You Release a Writer to the Wilds?

When you can’t improve a piece, should you return it and decline the job? It’s catch and release for the editorial set, today, in my How To column

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Inglorious Credits

Inglorious Credits

Sometimes you’d rather not be credited as the editor of a work. Contract terms and a reality check here, to get you through.

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How to Accept Less Than Your Best

Rolling in a heap of money helps one cope. Consider adding an aggravation fee. Lorne Michaels famously said about SNL: The show doesn’t go on because it’s

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When Lives Depend on the Words

When Lives Depend on the Words

  How to deal with the emotional and legal risks of working on words that could save, or cost, or even just ruin a life,

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Ten Signs of “Lifted” Text

Ten Signs of “Lifted” Text

Ten telltales that will alert you to the need to “freshen up” some of the prose, or seek out the proper citation and permissions, or

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