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The Joys of Teaching Engineers to Write
An editing colleague saw that I specialize in teaching engineers and scientists to write, and she asked me some provocative questions,...
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Subject-Verb Agreement and the Singular They
This blog post was originally published on copyediting.com. The singular they might just be 2015’s word of the year. As questions of...
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Disembodied Hands and the Passive Voice
This blog piece first appeared on Karin's blog "Plainly Spoken" (http://www.catheredit.com/blog/) and is being reposted with her...
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A Nerd and Some Hyphens
I have wondered what difference will it make when a reader sees an en dash. Will he think that it was some wrongly elongated hyphen, or...
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Crossing Cultural Lines: Copyediting in an Age of Globalization
With the outsourcing of writing and editorial services to countries located halfway around the world, a writer located in Bengaluru may...
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Tips for Freelance Success
A version of this article was originally published in the Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA) newsletter, The Freelancer...