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  • Laura Rafferty: Managing Science Publications From Start to Finish

    Strive to ensure your medical communications represent and respect all populations, for instance, by using people-first language and editing for inclusivity.

  • Andrea Leeth: Engineer-Turned-Editor

    Engineer-turned-editor — how did that happen?

  • Jamaal Pittman: Being Neurotic, Letting Go, and Getting Confident as an Editor

    When I speak to writers in my comments, I’m not just giving a suggestion. I’m building that relationship.

  • Against Copyediting (Part 2): Helen Betya Rubinstein Interview

    I talked with Helen Betya Rubinstein about the aftershocks of writing “Against Copyediting,” which appeared on Literary Hub.

  • Black Female Editors and Stress

    Dynamics that could lead to us as a collective wringing our hands over not recruiting or retaining more editors of color. 

  • Editing for Nonnative English-Speaking Writers

    What does “maintaining the author’s voice” even mean if they don’t write in the “direct, linear pattern of Western academic writing”?

  • Further Outside for This Website

    If nothing else, editors need to at least be aware of how nondominant Englishes operate, instead of labeling them as incorrect or acting as if they don’t exist.

  • Malecia Walker

    Headline writers did SEO before search engines and before SEO existed.

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  • Laura Rafferty: Managing Science Publications From Start to Finish
  • Andrea Leeth: Engineer-Turned-Editor
  • Jamaal Pittman: Being Neurotic, Letting Go, and Getting Confident as an Editor
  • Against Copyediting (Part 2): Helen Betya Rubinstein Interview
  • Black Female Editors and Stress

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