I'm a published chapter author! Editor Peter Ginna put together a book commissioned by the University of Chicago Press: What Editors D...

Would you ask a computer repair technician or a real estate agent to work for free? Of course not. Then why would you ask an editor to work ...

Editor at work From what I have observed over the years, editing services put their editors under pressure to cut corners and do lower-q...

If you have to annotate PDFs, you can find plenty of help and answers to your questions. Both Adobe and several of my colleagues have provid...

Each editor approaches the editing process differently. I wrote a post in April 2016 for the blog of the Indian Copyeditors' Forum on ...

There is no single official way to become a medical editor, but fellow editors frequently ask how to get into this niche. I wrote a post on ...

Note: This is not a book review, because I am an expert quoted in the book. Even if I were not quoted, though, I would still think Editing ...

Dear self-employed editorial colleagues: It's a myth that our workflow must be in a perpetual feast-or-famine cycle. If you do at le...

I've mentored many editors, including generalists and medical editors, over the years and have developed mentoring practices that work w...

A colleague asked what editing software I use. I'm happy to share that information, but what works for one editor may not be a good fit ...

I've been self-employed for 21 years, for the entire life-spans of two of my three children and now with three grandchildren around, so ...

Obtaining a certificate is not the same as achieving professional certification. Please note that certificate programs can be very valuabl...

There is no standardized process for becoming a medical editor. But in a guest post on The Editors' Weekly , the blog of Editors/Révise...

Editing just means reading and looking for typos, right? Wrong. In a guest post on the blog of the Indian Copyeditors Forum , I lay out the...

Publishing consultant Iva Cheung has posted her coverage of the panel discussion of project management at the recent national conference of...

Not being a linguist, I don't usually write posts detailing linguistic matters. This post is a reference list of good reading rounded up...

Dear authors of articles for biomedical journals: Editing is very unlike reading for pleasure or interest. It involves considering many is...

If you need to learn AMA style ( AMA Manual of Style , 10th edition), you can check the websites of various editorial professional associati...

Sometimes we editors have the pleasure, after helping writers who create educational articles for people in service-related professions, of ...

Editors are detail people; we pay attention to the smallest parts of every manuscript. Thus, when my people get together in groups, sometime...