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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Publishing Isn't Any Good at Diversification, and That Has to Change

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I’ve worked in publishing since 1984, first as an employee and then as a self-employed editor, and I must say this: “ Publishing, you’re kil...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Using Negative Words to Describe Older Adults Creates Prejudice

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  As a medical editor and as someone who is in her sixties, I am very much in favor of not using #ageist #language when talking about #olde...
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Monday, March 25, 2024

One Medical Editor's Method for Editing Journal Manuscripts

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I love style sheets . They're wonderful for ensuring consistency when you're editing a big manuscript, and then again when a profess...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

What Do Editors Do With Faked Reference Lists?

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If you edit manuscripts for academic books and journal articles, you’ll likely run into fake reference lists. That’s because in the academic...
Wednesday, June 07, 2023

Editor for Life

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Now, this is gonna have me smiling all day! I was interviewed by Keith Goddard, editor-in-chief of the Editors Toronto blog BoldFace , fo...
Wednesday, May 18, 2022

How to Handle Text Recycling When You're Writing a New Research Paper

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Science researcher–authors, you need to know this information about text recycling, which is sometimes called self-plagiarism. The term text...
Friday, December 03, 2021

The Stages of Life and Being a Freelance Editor

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My family and I are dealing with change, and two of the the things it will do for me are (1) decrease stress levels and (2) eventually allow...
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Katharine O'Moore-Klopf
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I've been in publishing since 1984, and self-employed since 1995. (Learn how to get started as a freelance copyeditor.) At the 2014 meeting of the ACES: The Society for Editing, I was honored by my peers with the 2013 Robinson Prize. Please visit my business website, KOK Edit, where you can find the Copyeditors' Knowledge Base. On Twitter, I am @KOKEdit. All entries and KOK Edit logo copyright © 2004–2024 by Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, except where other attribution is noted. All rights reserved.

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