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Skip to main content. Skip to primary sidebar. Skip to secondary sidebar. A technical writing and fiction blog by Sarah Maddox. Making a hash of it. Tech Comm on a Map. Tech Comm on a Map. Technical communicators love to know what’s happening in their area of expertise around the world. What better way to show it, than on a map? Tech Comm on a Map (available on the web. And as an Android app. New on 7 February 2016:. Tech Comm on a Map (Android). Is now available as an Android app. New on 2 May 2015:.
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Supporting sentences and each other - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Supporting sentences and each other. The other day, I was discussing the concept of bullet points with my six-year-old daughter. 8216;Part of my job involves checking the punctuation of bullet lists,’ I told her. She looked at me pityingly. ‘Sad job,’ she said. Facebook group, for example, and you’ll find eloquent international specialists eager to share their knowledge, united by their passion for the English language. I don’t...
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Social media round-up – June 2015 - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Social media round-up June 2015. In case you missed them, here are ten of the most popular links shared across the SfEP’s social media channels ( Facebook. In which our heroine stops and asks herself, “Why? Facebook, 2 June). A thought-provoking post on the benefits of freelancing from Copyediting.com. Top 10 proofreading tips. Twitter, 5 June). Facebook, 5 June). Word tool to check document structure. Facebook, 9 June). Onscre...
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Contribute to the blog - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Contribute to the blog. Would you like to contribute to the SfEP blog? We are always looking for ideas and submissions for the SfEP blog, so read the guidelines below and get in touch. The SfEP blog aims to provide useful and entertaining content to enhance the lives of anyone interested in proofreading or editing, while promoting the work and activities of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP). Anything that you find...
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Different types of editing – do the labels matter? - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Different types of editing do the labels matter? Sometimes what we do fits neatly into a category of editing … and sometimes it’s less clear. Recently I’ve seen (and participated in) a few discussions about different types of editing what they involve, how rates of pay work out for each, and the level of skill or knowledge required to undertake them. Structural or development editing. Familiar with the traditional book publishi...
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Eight tips for editing cookery - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Eight tips for editing cookery. Perhaps cookery is already one of your editorial specialisms, or it may be an area you’d like to try. In many ways, the same rules apply as for editing any other material the text needs to be clear, accurate and consistent. However, there are some particular things to watch out for. Here are some tips for editing or proofreading recipes. 1 Know your way around a kitchen/Enjoy food. As well as mak...
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Specialist Q&A – working for business clients - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Specialist Q&A working for business clients. Our editorial industry is made up of people carrying out a huge range of tasks across many different sectors. Although we are bound by common aims to make text consistent, accurate and clear our chosen areas of work can differ in fascinating ways. Kate Haigh ( Kateproof. 1 Briefly, what’s your work background? 3 What specific knowledge, experience or qualifications do you need? Nowad...
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Clients Archives - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Publishers, pigeons and German knitting: musings on the London Book Fair. As many of you will know (at least avid forum readers), I recently ran an SfEP stand at the London Book Fair, ably assisted by a crack team of volunteer members. Was it worth it? Only time will tell in terms of actual new joiners and new clients using our services, but my overall impression is yes! Publishers and authors, as potential clients, were very p...
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Working at a treadmill desk - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Working at a treadmill desk. One of the benefits of being a freelancer and working from home is having more control over how I use my time. This presents numerous opportunities for optimising my work life balance, and recently I started considering practical solutions to the problem of fitting regular exercise into my working day. If you do a lot of typing then an electronic treadmill might be more suitable. These are more ...
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Reference editing solutions for copy-editors - SfEP blog
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The blog of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders. Contribute to the blog. Reference editing solutions for copy-editors. This is a guest post by Inera, who are hosting a workshop on their online reference editing tool Edifix at the SfEP/SI conference. Although many of us use time-saving macros to programmatically and quickly address some of the more routine reference editing tasks (see, e.g., the helpful tools offered by Editorium. 8217; The answer is yes, yes they are. But these tools are only useful...
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