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Ever have trouble keeping your gerunds and participles straight in your head? Or know someone who struggles with these? Jonathon Owen of @Copyediting is here to help: bit.ly/2UQQ9hP #gerunds #participles #amediting
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Thanks to @Copyediting and @copyeditors for a great post-presentation Q&A today! If you missed today's webinar on editing translations, the recording will be up for sale soon at copyediting.com/individual-t….
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Sarah Grey charts the ins and outs of editing translated text, including localized, transcreated, and monolingual texts with large foreign-language lexicons. Join her @Copyediting master class, 'Editing Translations', on 13 December 2018. @GreyEditing ow.ly/sExE30mT782
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“….You’ll need to make the translation read well to native English speakers, smoothing out the wrinkles that too literal a translation can introduce.” Learn more from Sarah Grey of @Copyediting as she describes the intricacies of #editing translated text: bit.ly/2UrRAmn
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Two free training sessions on offer in the @Copyediting sale: Editing tables & figures by @lepoole and Editing for the web by @ebrenner. Buy now, watch later! bit.ly/2rhZ7Xy #editing #training #CPD
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Copyediting owners Erin Brenner and Laura Poole are saying goodbye to @Copyediting and hello to their first loves — writing, editing, and freelance consulting. They’re gifting all of the resources from Copyediting to ACES. Read the full announcement here: bit.ly/2zpy00r
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ICYMI, @amyjschn explains there's more to being an editor than "spotting typos" in her latest article for @Copyediting.
What misconceptions about editors do you frequently find yourself dispelling?
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Editing is fun (for some), and coming at it with a grasp of English is wise. But it still requires a lot of training and is a demanding task. It’s not as easy as rocket surgery, for instance, which I’ll take up after retirement.
This is an excellent glimpse.
"People really have no idea what we do." @amyjschn corrects some editing misconceptions in this "day in the life of a freelance editor" account: ow.ly/OLH730mqO9Z
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If I had a dollar every time someone asked me "When is Earth a proper noun? . . . copyediting.com/when-is-eart… @Copyediting @4ndyman
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“87 percent of readers are less able to process the words than the people who produced them are. In fact, 14 to 20 percent of English North America doesn’t have enough reading skills to get through the day,” says Adrienne Montgomerie of @Copyediting: bit.ly/2ymqGms
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This is gonna be a really good class--great for beginning editors, teams, and more advanced editors wanting a solid brush-up. @KoryStamper is great! Sign up now!
Registration closes Tuesday night for this Wednesday class with @KoryStamper! (If you can't make the live class, you can still register and immediately get the recording and handouts.)
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"'Webster’s' isn’t a proprietary trade name: any reference company can use the name 'Webster’s' with impunity (and many do)," says lexicographer @KoryStamper, explaining some differences between the "Webster's" dictionaries in this piece for @Copyediting. buff.ly/2NIxcsI
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“By being upfront about any lack of a skill and how you can overcome it (or will), you’ll build trust and show initiative and problem-solving skills,” explains Erin Brenner of @Copyediting: bit.ly/2pPZx73 #amediting #copyeditors #jobsearch #qualified
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This may not be news to many #copyeditors, but it's always nice to hear. The study finds that “the advantages of growing up in a book-filled home can be measured well into adulthood.” @PacificStand bit.ly/2Cu0pX0 #amreading #amediting #homelibrary #booklovers
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“Spotting typos shows an eye for—and an interest in—details, and that’s a great start. But there’s so much more to catch,” Erin Brenner explains via @Copyediting: bit.ly/2I5N6ME #amediting #amproofreading #copyeditors #trainingrequired
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"We use Webster's Dictionary" could mean one of several distinct dictionaries, and that makes a difference for us editors. @KoryStamper examines the multiple dictionaries out there for @Copyediting.
Super helpful post! @KoryStamper looks at a few key dictionaries that editors should be familiar with, which style guides use them, and differences among them: ow.ly/CioC30mbhu9
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Look for copy editing work that requires less than five years of experience and be prepared to take editing tests. Erin Brenner of @Copyediting explains more: bit.ly/2E5MfNv #amediting #copyeditors #firstjob #editingtests
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@Copyediting has written about putting a pronoun after 'than' – the dilemma that stops everyone in their tracks at least once in their lifetime. ow.ly/r23730m0AFc
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“Spotting typos shows an eye for—and an interest in—details, and that’s a great start. But there’s so much more to catch,” Erin Brenner explains via @Copyediting: bit.ly/2I5N6ME #amediting #amproofreading #copyeditors #trainingrequired
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Why training is needed – in fact, vital – for those wanting to be editorial professionals. Wise words from @ebrenner in @Copyediting: copyediting.com/breaking-int…