A career as an editor is often a solo adventure, especially if you’re a freelancer. So, we thought one way to better connect with fellow editors was to ask them to submit their responses to a set of questions based on the Five Ws: who, what, where, when, and why. Read on for some thought-provoking, … Continue reading Editor for Life: Cassandra Filice, Editor and Writer
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Executive Unplugged: Stephanie Edwards, Community Liaison
We wanted to give Editors Toronto members, including student affiliates, another way to get to know their executive committee members, while also finding out what is involved in being on the committee. So, we asked executive committee members to introduce themselves and their roles by answering a few questions for our “Executive Unplugged” series. Meet … Continue reading Executive Unplugged: Stephanie Edwards, Community Liaison
Editors Advise: Professional Development and Webinars for Editors (Part 2)
In this series, editors share their experiences, insights, and tips on the practical aspects of working as an editor. In some of our previous “Editors Advise” instalments, our contributors have shared their thoughts on various topics, including part 1 of this series, editorial niches, and inclusive language resources. For this edition, four editors share their … Continue reading Editors Advise: Professional Development and Webinars for Editors (Part 2)
It’s All in the Cards: Editing Oracle Decks
by Erin Della Mattia The work of an editor often appears mysterious to outsiders. Friends and family don’t always understand what we do. Occasionally we ourselves are surprised by other editors too, when they reveal what, exactly, they edit. Texts or products that you had never thought of as needing editing but which, once you … Continue reading It’s All in the Cards: Editing Oracle Decks
What’s on Your Editing Bookshelf? (#8)
In What’s on Your Editing Bookshelf, members of the editing community share what’s on their (physical) bookshelves and highlight a few notable titles. In our eighth instalment, four editors from Toronto share some of their favourites. If you’d like to show us your bookshelf, let us know! Photo by Ben Garratt on Unsplash Genevieve Clovis … Continue reading What’s on Your Editing Bookshelf? (#8)
Editors Advise: Formatting Your Editing Résumé
In this series, editors share their experiences, insights, and tips on the practical aspects of working as an editor. In some of our previous “Editors Advise” instalments, our contributors have shared their thoughts on various topics, including editorial niches and professional development and webinars. For this edition, three editors share their advice for formatting their … Continue reading Editors Advise: Formatting Your Editing Résumé
The Medium Is the Message (And So Are We!)
by Andrew Park “The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) A while back, I wrote a blog post about large language models (LLMs), advertised it on … Continue reading The Medium Is the Message (And So Are We!)
On Italicizing Non-English Words
by Natalia Iwanek Over the past decade, there has been ongoing debate about the use of italics as a style choice for non-English words or phrases that may not be familiar to – what is often considered – the monolingual audience of the North American English-language writing, editing, and publishing industries. This is of particular … Continue reading On Italicizing Non-English Words
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