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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,...
Christa Bedwin
Jan 30, 2016


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...
Sarah Grey
Jan 22, 2016


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...
Karin Cather
Jan 20, 2016


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...
Murugaraj Shanmugam
Jan 10, 2016


Crossing Cultural Lines: Copyediting in an Age of Globalization
With the outsourcing of writing and editorial services to countries located halfway around the world, a writer located in Bengaluru may...
Meenakshi Venkat
Jan 9, 2016


Tips for Freelance Success
The strong desire to break free from organizational shackles had become so overpowering in the later years of my career that it was becoming almost impossible to resist the temptation every passing day.
Vivek Kumar
Jan 4, 2016



























