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This blog post was originally published on the Editors Canada blog, The Editors’ Weekly.
Someone recently asked me that question at a networking event. As an editor who came to this profession via a teaching career, I’d pondered this before, and wondered if and how my experience as a teacher shapes my approach as an editor.
Read moreThis blog post was originally published on the Editors Canada blog, The Editors’ Weekly blog.
“How can you edit that? You don’t know anything about being an electrician.”
I often heard that question and variations of it — carpenter, instrument technician, welder — in my years editing technical instructional materials for apprenticeship trades in Alberta. This is how I answered the question.
Read moreThis blog post was originally published on the Editors Canada blog, The Editors’ Weekly.
The term “metrics” has become a bit of a business buzzword, especially for digital enterprises. It’s a trendy word for ways to quantifiably measure success such as tracking social media metrics (followers, click-through rates) or sales metrics (monthly numbers). As editors, though, we don’t have the same kinds of reliable metrics to help us measure the success of our editing endeavours. If we edit books, we might examine book sales, but those numbers can be attributable to many factors other than our edits. Other possible metrics are equally indirect. So how do editors measure their success?
Read moreThis blog post was originally published on the Editors Canada blog, The Editors’ Weekly.
I admit it: I’m a (sometimes obsessive) list maker. I make them for all kinds of things: to-do lists, grocery lists, vacation packing lists; my list of lists goes on and on. It’s no surprise, then, that I often use an editing checklist.
Read moreThis blog post was originally published on the Editors Canada blog, The Editors’ Weekly.
Canada is a kaleidoscope of cultures and languages from around the world. As the number of residents whose native language isn’t English increases, the need for editors who can edit their writing effectively and sensitively grows, too.
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