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Using a Copyediting Style Sheet
Watch and learn about style sheets and how they can make you an editor extraordinaire. Download a style sheet template that you can use for your editing work.
Do you use these spell-checking dictionaries for MS Word?
In a recent session on using custom dictionaries, one participant asked what dictionaries are available for MS Word’s spell-checking. Here are some suggestions.
Think Write: A Workshop for Authors and Writers
What it takes to get a work published? The answer to this question has, sadly, never been straightforward. Editor’s Essentials organized Think Write 2019, an interactive one-day workshop providing authors, aspiring authors, and writers an opportunity to learn to distinguish themselves in a highly competitive market.
Be prepared to be thrown away
What if, as a freelance editor, you are thrown away? An unresponsive author, pending payment, lack of recognition, maybe all of them! What should you do?
Dead Giveaways That an Author Is Indian
Is “updation” even a word? Is the antonym for “postpone” “prepone”? Read on to find how Indian English has added some spice to the English language.
Can the Internet Impede the Skills of Copy Editors?
Slow and steady changes are not recognized but can result in a compromise in the core skills
Featured posts
The Making of an Editor
When our professor stopped his class to read out a circular about a campus selection programme, I didn’t realise that it was going to change the contours of my life.
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Dead Giveaways That an Author Is Indian
India is largely seen as a non-native-English-speaking nation, but the country has a significantly large population of English speakers owing to its British colonial history.
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Feedback: Giving Gracefully and Receiving Gratefully
She was somewhere in the middle of the thick woods. Alone. Directionless. Not sure about where to head, she panicked and started walking
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A Valentine’s Day and an Antecedent Accident
To say it was a Valentine’s day is being redundant. It was when many of my colleagues and I were in our early and mid-20s, which made that V-day all the more special.
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