Got acronyms? Here’s how to style them in your work, plus when to explain them and how.
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Using Character Spaces Effectively
In the beginning, there wasn’t even space. “Writing in ancient Greece was broken by neither marks nor spaces,” writes Keith Houston on his blog, Shady
No Need to Spell It Out
Some acronyms don’t need to be spelled out, and some you wouldn’t recognize if they were: single lens reflex camera, for example. Acronym uses today,
How to Style Vertical Lists
Did you know that punctuation “rules” for vertical lists vary according to which style guide is in use? Or that some style guides recommend different
Checklist for Editing Figures: Graphs
More checklists! Today’s is for editing graphs, in my How To column at Copyediting.com. Now available in the ebook, Getting the Numbers Right. Check out the whole
Checklist for Editing Figures: Diagrams
Another 29-point checklist in today’s How To column at Copyediting.com. This one for editing diagrams.
Checklist for Editing Tables
A 29-point checklist for making sure that the tables in your manuscript are edited consistently and to style, in Getting the Numbers Right, now available
Automatically Number Comments in Word
Having a “constant” applied to a comment so you can refer to it is pretty useful. In this post at Copyediting.com, I walk you through
Editing the Academic Voice
Preserving the academic voice is what I cover in this last instalment in the series about editing academic works (articles for academic journals, theses, and monographs) on
Horrifying Edits, We Hope
Sometimes, the editing is supposed to be scary. Today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com, I talk to genre editor Lillian Cohen-Moore about how she manages to sleep at night when