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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Accuracy in Science Publications? What Accuracy?

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Can you trust the accuracy of what you’re reading in science publications anymore? From the blog Retraction Watch : “Following our coverage ...
Saturday, July 12, 2025

New Legislation and How It Can Affect American Freelancers

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The nonprofit Freelancers Union has been around since 1995, advocating for American freelancers' rights. It helps build safeguards, ben...
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...
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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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