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Everyday Proofreading and Punctuation Marks: Their Meaning and How They Are Used
Aug 15, 2023 - Lesley-Anne LongoPretty much everyone uses punctuation marks in their day-to-day life, whether it’s in texts, emails, professional communications, business writing, le...
Everyday Proofreading and Punctuation Marks: What Do They Mean and How Are They Used?
Oct 13, 2021 - Lesley-Anne LongoPretty much everyone uses punctuation marks in their day-to-day life, whether it’s in texts, emails, professional communications, business writing, le...
A Brief History of the Pilcrow: A Worldly Mark on Proofreading
Oct 06, 2021 - Michael BedfordThe ways that linguistic conventions change over time are sometimes obvious. New dialects and turns of phrase crop up, and many of them gradually chan...
Spotting Typos: Sometimes We See Them, Sometimes We Don’t
Sep 15, 2021 - Beth McAuleyIn August 2017, Beth wrote this blog when our TEC offices were located on 27 Carlton to express her frustration at spotting obvious – or perhaps n...
Fact-Checking: The “Behind the Scenes” Editing Work
Aug 17, 2021 - TEC EditorsWhy Do We Fact-Check? As The Chicago Manual of Style points out, in publishing, the author is ultimately responsible for the accuracy of a work. A...
What Does “Heading A” Mean? Some Key Editing Terms Explained
Jun 16, 2021 - Michael BedfordEditorial work entails a variety of different jobs. These include substantive editing, line editing, and proofreading. Because the process of editoria...
What Does “Heading A” Mean? Some Key Editing Terms Explained
Jan 14, 2021 - Michael BedfordEditorial work entails a variety of different jobs. These include substantive editing, line editing, and proofreading. Because the process of editoria...
Proofreading: Nobody Is Prefcet
Jan 13, 2015 - Barbara KamienskiYou know the feeling, don’t you? You’ve composed an exquisitely worded email, tinkered with the phrasing to get it just right, and read it...
A Love Letter to Anthropology (or: In Defence of an Arts Degree)
Feb 07, 2013 - Nina Hoeschele“Anthropology!” said a chatty tech support guy who insisted on doing small talk rather than fixing my bank account problem. “That&...
Proofreader's Syndrome
Jul 06, 2012 - Jessica MifsudEven in the few short weeks I’ve been here at The Editing Company, I’ve gotten to wear a lot of different hats on the job. One of my favou...
