Category Archives: Editing

Should Headings Be Capitalized?

Posted on June 3, 2011 by admin

As is often the case in writing and editing, the answer is: it depends. Capitalization of headings is essentially a style issue. There was a time when some amount of capitalization in headings was expected, but that is no longer … Continue reading →

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Fantastic New Resources

Posted on May 16, 2011 by admin

I know that these are not new to everyone, but there were new to me fairly recently. TERMIUM, the Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank, is a fantastic language tool for finding just the right word, using the … Continue reading →

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Mixing up similar words

Posted on February 18, 2011 by admin

When editing or proofreading a document, unfortunately, it is far too easy to miss incidents of similar words getting mixed up. Emphatically, empathically and empathetically seem so similar when reading silently that I totally missed the errors the first couple … Continue reading →

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SITW: An interesting editing combo

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Sheila Mahoney

Editors and Writers have broad skill sets and interests and come from hugely varied backgrounds. Continue reading →

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