The Art of Pitching
With the increased desire to have control over the whole process and the need to make decisions that benefit the entrepreneurial self,...
Volunteer to Boost Your Career
I applaud Vivek for his efforts to organize Indian editors through this website and through the newly formed Indian branch of Editorial...
Organising a Get-Together for Freelance Editors
Not everyone enjoys networking in the traditional sense (going to meetings with people you don’t know, drinking coffee, handing out...
How to Set Your Freelance Rates
In the construction trades, you’ll hear the expression “time and materials” as a way of estimating jobs, but when setting your freelance...
Editor Melinda's Copyediting Groove
This blog post was originally published on December 26, 2015, on Melinda' website. The purpose of today’s blog post is to highlight an...
The BELS Certification—What Is It and How Does It Help?
The Board of Editors in the Life Sciences (BELS) is a professional body in the United States that was established in 1991. BELS is mainly...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
