Copyediting

Copyediting goddess deannahoak, paulwitcover, and the incomparable maryrobinette are also attending.

4/6/08: Good news x3 deanwesleysmith 2008

Copyediting, as I'm sure you know, is a standard part of the news business.

Rob Morrison: Daddy Diaries: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Anchorman 2009

Now, if I could be a vessel for the glimmering, diaphanous spirit of True Copyediting, that would be awesome.

The Breaking of the Vessels yuki_onna 2009

Copyediting a living document with the objective of world building interdependently between multiple parties certainly has brought some interesting topics to my mind.

Archive 2009-02-01 The_Lex 2009

Copyediting a living document with the objective of world building interdependently between multiple parties certainly has brought some interesting topics to my mind.

Trying to Make a Comeback The_Lex 2009

Medium Copyediting includes having our editor go through the manuscript and complete the needed changes to include:

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

"Every time you add a new word to the dictionary, you have to subtract something, so you cut out example sentences," says Wendalyn Nichols, former editor-in-chief of the Random House dictionary division who is now the editor of Copyediting newsletter.

Are Dictionaries Becoming Obsolete? 2009

Copyediting gone amok: The funky results of suppressing natural English instincts

22 contemporary poets worth reading if you think there's no good poetry written nowadays. - 22 Words 2008

And in an unrelated note, I attended a copyediting audio conference call today in which the teacher (Editor of Copyediting magazine) used an example from something you'd written (about Geoff Nunberg).

Shirtwaist #1 - A Dress A Day 2008

Copyediting gone amok: The funky results of suppressing natural English instincts

I want to remember this as I try to think before I speak. - 22 Words 2008