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I found my calling as an editor—but it was a long and arduous journey
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. —Lord Tennyson The thing about perseverance is that it is never futile. The last five...
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The scholarly copy editor
What does a copy editor do? While there’s a long, boring answer to that question—one that involves innumerable mechanics and rules to...