Different stages of your career will require different skillsets. We’ve organized this page into the sections Student, New or Incidental Editor, and Experienced Editor. Students and Student Affiliates will find the resources specific to their context. Under New or Incidental Editor, we’ve included subsections dedicated to the types of editing you can develop skills for, including structural, stylistic and copy editing, as well as proofreading, plain language, conscious language, fact checking, manuscript evaluation and how to fine-tune strong professional relationships with clients. If you are an experienced editor, this section will provide valuable information about our professional certification program and how to give back by mentoring.
We’ve also included resources about developing productive working habits and how to expand your practice with Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility resources—important for editors at all stages of their careers.
Student
Educational Opportunities
Editing Essentials Test
This test assesses your knowledge of the basics of editing and to provide a qualification for entry-level editors.
The Editing Essentials Test Tested: Unlock Your Editing Career
You have just embraced editing as your new career. You have some editing experience, just not the five years recommended to sign up for an Editors Canada certification test. How can you convince prospective clients or a potential employer that you do have editing skills?
A list (compiled in 2024) of educational institutions, organized by province, offering courses in editing or publishing.
Student Affiliate Resources
Becoming a Student Affiliate of Editors Canada
Are you a student thinking about becoming an editor or working with editors? Discover the benefits of becoming a student affiliate of Editors Canada.
Edit Your Résumé for In-House Work
Focusing on job-seekers interested in in-house positions in the publishing world, this free webinar will help you craft a résumé that highlights the impact you’ve made in your work history.
Feeling Lost in the Editing Crowd? Join the Student Affiliates!
Are you a student studying editing, have you recently completed an editing program, or are you a more experienced editor? Consider joining the student affiliate Facebook group. In this blog post, editor and writer Becky Noelle shares the benefits of having an online space where student affiliates and more experienced editors can learn from each other.
John Eerkes-Medrano Mentorship Program
The John Eerkes-Medrano Mentorship Program offers editors the opportunity to participate in one-on-one mentoring relationships. Mentorship is available to Editors Canada members and student affiliates.
Making the Shift from Student to Freelance Editor
Are you a new graduate looking to start freelance editing? In this blog post, freelance copy editor, proofreader and writer Natalia Iwanek discusses her experience going from student to freelance editor and how networking and other activities can help launch your editing career.
New or Incidental Editor
Educational Opportunities
Editing Essentials Test
This test assesses your knowledge of the basics of editing and to provide a qualification for entry-level editors.
The Editing Essentials Test Tested: Unlock Your Editing Career
You have just embraced editing as your new career. You have some editing experience, just not the five years recommended to sign up for an Editors Canada certification test. How can you convince prospective clients or a potential employer that you do have editing skills?
A list (compiled in 2024) of educational institutions, organized by province, offering courses in editing or publishing.
Meeting Professional Editorial Standards
This resource covers the range of skills you will need to work as an editor.
Professional Editorial Standards 2024
Editors Canada’s resource on the fundamentals of editing, offering necessary clarity for all editors.
Structural Editing
Editors Canada Presents: Substantive and Stylistic Editing
This Youtube video provides a clear definition of the differences between these types of editing.
Structural Editing: Meeting Professional Editorial Standards
This resource covers the range of skills you will need to work as a structural editor.
Arc of Life: Narrative Arc in Creative Nonfiction
In this session, Lynne Melcombe looks at why narrative arc is as important in nonfiction as fiction, and she explores creative ways to overcome the challenges inherent in finding the arc in any story.
Editing science fiction and fantasy genres is not as similar to editing other genres of fiction as you might think. This webinar discusses genre definitions and details in worldbuilding, with a focus on the developmental and stylistic/line editing stages.
Immersion Blending: Edits that Mix the Reader’s Mind into the Narrative
Join in to learn about phenomenology and affect theory, and how focusing on our own experiences and interactions can help us build stronger foundations for fiction.
Peeking Through Your Fingers: An Introduction to Editing Horror
This session is open to any curious professionals but is calibrated for developmental editors with little or no experience working on horror.
The Radical Role of Developmental Editing
Fazeela Jiwa discusses how she uses developmental editing (also known as structural editing) to support writers in improving the organization, style and content of their work.
Series Secrets: How to Edit Sequels and Companion Books
In this two-part webinar, Emily Stewart explores how developmental editing a series differs from editing an individual book.
Substantive Editing Versus Developmental Editing
If there’s one thing editors cannot agree on, it’s terminology. Do you offer substantive edits or developmental edits? Is there a difference. Be more confident in how you advertise your offerings with this blog post by Andrew Hodges.
Worldbuilding in Fiction Editing: Theory and Practice
Plot, characters, and setting are the essence of good storytelling. In this webinar geared toward developmental editors, Andrew Hodges and Genevieve Clovis guide you through approaches to worldbuilding theory and practice.
Stylistic Editing
Editors Canada Presents: Substantive and Stylistic Editing
This Youtube video explains the foundational differences between these two types of editing.
Stylistic Editing: Meeting Professional Editorial Standards
This resource covers the range of skills you will need to work as a structural editor.
Editing science fiction and fantasy genres is not as similar to editing other genres of fiction as you might think. This webinar discusses genre definitions and details in worldbuilding, with a focus on the developmental and stylistic/line editing stages.
Editing the Art of Comic Book Lettering: An Introduction
Beyond proofreading and copy editing the text in comics, editing the art and design of the lettering is an integral responsibility of comic book editors. This is where stylistic editing comes into play, the topic of this webinar.
Copy Editing
Editors Canada Presents: Copy Editing
What is copy editing and how does it differ from proofreading?
Copy Editing: Meeting Professional Editorial Standards
This resource covers the range of skills you will need to work as a copy editor.
Acceptable Copy Editing Productivity Rates and Top 10 Tips for Increasing Productivity
This one-hour webinar will outline acceptable copy editing productivity rates, illustrate how to measure your productivity, and provide 10 tips for increasing your productivity.
Almost Everything You Need to Know about Copy Editing and Grammar Skills
Moira White’s five-part series teaches participants how to handle the “four pillars of copy editing”: capitalization, hyphenation, punctuation, and correct number style.
Book Formatting Using Word Styles
Are you interested in learning how to create a professional print book interior using a standard program? In this webinar, publisher Meghan Behse teaches you how to create a fully customizable print book layout using Microsoft Word. This is often an expectation of publishers during a copy edit.
Concordances: Character and Plot
This webinar looks at what a concordance is, how to use it, how to add a simplified concordance to any style sheet and how to notate necessary details in an effective manner that lets you easily pick up where you left off.
Conscious Language and Copy Editing Fiction
Language in fiction that is sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, homophobic, or transphobic, although it may seek to reflect real life and further the story, can be harmful to readers. At the copy editing stage, these issues may or may not have been discussed or reviewed, and the copy editor may need to attend to them. This session will discuss how and when a copy editor should call out and suggest revisions for potentially harmful language.
Copy Editing Standards: Tables, Visual Elements and Multimedia
Are you comfortable copy editing text but aren’t as confident when it comes to visual elements? This webinar is for you.
Copy Editing Tips for Translators
In this webinar, participants learn about copy editing translations for clients.
This session covers one experienced editor’s approach to copy editing fiction for mainstream publishers.
Gender-Inclusive Editing: Becoming a Radical Copyeditor
In this webinar, Alex Kapitan, creator of Radical Copyeditor, discusses how sexism and transphobia creep into everyday language and how editors can help describe and create a world in which gender diversity is affirmed and valued. Editing can be a tool for countering gender-based oppression: this webinar demonstrates how.
This free one-hour webinar presents overviews of the general approach to copy editing fiction, how to build a fiction style sheet, and conscious language in fiction.
Written for in-house editors specifically, in this post, Aaron Dalton discusses in-house style guides and lessons from case studies to help editors better understand style guides in the workplace.
This post shares some of the benefits of creating a style sheet for a project and tips for getting started.
Managing “Squirrel” Edits: Avoid Losing Your Way Chasing Global Edits
In a single document, a copy editor may encounter a combination of errors that are one-offs and errors that are likely to occur in multiple places. In this webinar, Claire Fossey looks at some methods to manage these distracting squirrel edits so editors need not fear losing the plot.
Oops! Finding and Fixing Bloopers in Fiction
Copy editing fiction is like being the continuity director for a film, watching for little mistakes that pull readers out of the story. In this session, Amy J. Schneider discusses the language, action and factual bloopers you can find in fiction, and how to fix them.
Style Sheets: Your New Best Friend
This blog post presents key information from a presentation that Lesley Cameron gave about the function of style sheets, tips for how to use them and the benefits they provide to copy editors and their colleagues.
Is impact accepted as a verb? Why are prevent and avoid so often confused? Is it okay to verbify? This webinar examines these and other usage questions and problems.
Proofreading
Editors Canada Presents: Proofreading
What is proofreading and how does it differ from copy editing?
Edit Like a Pro: Proofreading contains exercises based on realistic scenarios, with sample answers and detailed commentary.
If you’re new to proofreading or you’re an editor thinking about adding proofreading and fact-checking to your freelance services, check out Essential Proofreading Skills, presented by Sharon McInnis, CEO (Chief Error Officer) of ProofingQueen Editing.
How to Mark up PDF Files Using Annotations Tools in Adobe
Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat annotation tools to mark up your Acrobat PDF files, similar to the Track Changes and Comments features in Microsoft Word.
Introducing Maps: Developing Requirements and Proofreading Maps
In this webinar, freelance editor and writer Laura Edlund introduces how to critically examine maps as an editor, develop and edit requirements for maps in text publications and review the results.
Proofreading for Businesses and Ad Agencies
Proofreading for businesses and ad agencies can be a lucrative field for a keen-eyed proofreader. This webinar explores how corporate proofreading differs from traditional proofreading.
Plain Language
Editors Canada Presents: What Is Plain Language?
Let’s be clear. Plain language considers word choice, logic and layout.
What Is Plain Language? Part 1: A Definition
This is the first in a series of articles discussing the basic principles of plain language that Aaron Dalton has found successful in his teaching. First up: what is plain language?
What Is Plain Language? Part 2: Reading Is a Skill
In part two of his plain language series, Aaron Dalton explores the relationship between literacy rates and the need for clear writing.
What Is Plain Language? Part 3: When You Assume …
In part three, Aaron Dalton shows how making assumptions about readers’ needs can weaken the reader experience.
What Is Plain Language? Part 4: Craftsmanship
In part four, Aaron Dalton reveals the three steps of the craft of clear writing.
What Is Plain Language? Part 5: The Nitty-gritty
In the final part of his series about plain language, Aaron Dalton reviews the nitty-gritty details of plain language.
A summary of research supporting plain language for audiences.
Introducing the Accessibility Standards Canada (ASC) Plain Language National Standard of Canada
This webinar introduces the Accessibility Standards Canada (ASC) Plain Language Standard, including how it complements and compares with other standards and guidance.
Newsletters, Emails and Presentations: Improving the Tools of Business Communication
This webinar uses plain language principles to help you improve the clarity and effectiveness of these tools.
This volunteer, unincorporated, member organization provides resources and networking opportunities for Canadian plain language supporters.
In this webinar, plain language experts Gael Spivak and Greg Ioannou share how to use the core concepts and principles of the new Professional Editorial Standards, adopted by Editors Canada in 2023, in your writing and in structural and stylistic editing work.
Plain Language Is Not “Dumbing Down” Writing
Writer and editor Tracey Anderson shares her experience with teaching plain language from her writing class.
Why Use Plain Language? What Science Says About Our Brain’s Reading Process
Want to reach a greater audience using plain language? Learn how in this interactive webinar with Cheryl Stephens, the founder of the new PLAIN Canada.
Conscious Language
The Conscious Style Guide offers resources and articles for writers and editors looking to be more mindful with their language—an essential practice for editors.
An Editor’s Guide to Assessing and Addressing Problematic Content
Even if we understand that biased or exclusive language can render text ineffective or harmful, addressing these issues is often easier said than done. In this webinar, Crystal Shelley shares practical tips to help you navigate the challenges that can come with offering guidance on potentially problematic language or representation.
Conscious Language and Copy Editing Fiction
Language in fiction that is sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, homophobic, or transphobic, although it may seek to reflect real life and further the story, can be harmful to readers. At the copy editing stage, these issues may or may not have been discussed or reviewed, and the copy editor may need to attend to them. This session will discuss how and when a copy editor should call out and suggest revisions for potentially harmful language.
What Role Can Editors Play in the Conscious Language Debate?
Tali Ijack talks about what conscious language is and an editor’s role in the ongoing debate on conscious language and its interactions with cultural changes that demand inclusivity and diversity.
Client Relations
Client Relationships for the In-House Editor
As an in-house editor, Gael Spivak shares her advice on maintaining strong relations with writers.
Customer Service for Editors: “Saving the Table” When You Make a Mistake
Cleverly making the connection between serving in the hospitality industry and editing, Kay Pettigrew suggests that when you make a mistake, you should own it and “save the table.”
It can be nerve-wracking to discuss your edits in face-to-face meetings with authors, especially if you are new to the process. Aaron Dalton provides seven key strategies he uses when he’s in these editorial meetings to make the experience less stressful, and maybe even enjoyable.
Editing for Authors on a Budget
How can you help an author who has a limited budget for editing? In this blog post, freelance fiction editor Laura Bontje discusses how an editor can help a writer on a limited budget without sacrificing their business.
The editor’s letter is the first substantial communication that an editor has with their client. This blog post outlines how to write your first editor’s letter to a client so that you establish a positive, supportive relationship.
Empirical Editors: Curse of Knowledge
Read this blog post to learn how to avoid cognitive bias when communicating with your clients.
Encouraging Coworkers to See the Benefits of Editing
This blog post describes how you can demonstrate the value of editing to your colleagues while establishing positive working relationships with them.
From Contact to Contract: How Editors Get Clients to Work With Them
Whether you’re new to the editing business or have a steady client base, finding and contracting work is always of interest. This is one book you’ll refer to again and again.
Get Into a Long-Term Relationship With Your Clients
Marketing your business and negotiating with new clients is time-consuming and stressful. Learn how to turn one-off or short-term projects into ongoing clients in this one-hour webinar.
It’s not enough to be confident in what will improve the manuscript; you also need to communicate it in a way that will help your client understand and happily accept it, or at least disagree with it in an informed and collegial way. This webinar will take examples good and bad and present them in service of principles and practices for effective communication about editing.
How to Offer Your Authors Positive Feedback
Recognizing and affirming your clients’ strengths is one of the best ways to create a collaborative partnership, encourage their learning and boost their confidence.
Know What You’re Getting Into: How to Vet Projects for Sensitive Themes
While there are many great reasons to work directly with indie authors, one of the challenges is that you have no built-in filter to protect you from highly difficult or insensitive subject matter. In this session, Amelia Winters teaches you what she’s learned and how you can use the tools she’s created to identify your own boundaries and effectively vet clients for sensitive themes.
This blog post provides key tips on how to write effective editorial comments.
Perfectly Imperfect: Accepting and Embracing “Good Enough”
Participants will get Rhonda Kronyk’s strategies for accepting that “good enough” does not mean submitting substandard work and is better for their mental and physical health.
The Radical Role of Developmental Editing
While this is a post about developmental or structural editing primarily, Fazeela Jiwa discusses how important client relationships are to this process.
Three Ways Long-term Clients Make Freelancing Less Stressful
Michelle Waitzman explains how building long-term client relationships can alleviate stress and create more opportunities for growth and networking for freelancers.
The author-editor relationship transforms in some ways when your author is also an editor. This link takes you to a collection of The Editors’ Weekly blog posts that explore how to navigate that dynamic.
Fact Checking and Permissions
AI Editing Uncertainty: Navigating Ethics, Copyright and Privacy
AI tools have already proven themselves useful, yet to many they present a moral morass of ethical issues, privacy concerns and copyright violations. In this webinar, Perrin Lindelauf examines these important topics.
Whether or not a writer can use a section from another artist’s work without seeking permission is an extremely common question, and many feel the answers lie in a grey area. This link to Canada’s Copyright Act explains what an infringement of copyright includes, as well as exceptions, which in Canada is called Fair Dealing.
This webinar is an introduction to fact-checking; it presents a snapshot and selected resources, tips and tricks for editors and other communication professionals interested in how to fact-check or fact-check more and better.
“With Your Consent”: The Unruly Realm of Copyright and Permissions
If the topics of copyright, permissions and licensing make you uneasy, you’re not alone. In this one-hour webinar, Dania Sheldon draws on her extensive writing and editing experience to show you how this area can make your work projects more interesting and diversify your skill set for current and prospective clients.
Writing Coaches and Writers—“A Beautiful Synergy”: An Interview with Tanya Gold
Tracey Anderson interviews Tanya Gold, book editor, writing coach, translator and literary omnivore, about coaching writers.
Manuscript Evaluation
The Wheat from the Chaff: An Approach to Manuscript Evaluation
Consider adding manuscript evaluations to the menu of services you provide.
Experienced Editor
Certification
Are You Certifiable? Preparing for Editors Canada’s Certification Exams
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about Editors Canada’s certification exams from Certified Professional Editors and members of the Editors Canada certification steering committee
Certification Test Prep Guides
Editors Canada professional certification recognizes editors who have demonstrated a high level of knowledge and skill in their profession. The program consists of four tests: structural editing, stylistic editing, copy editing and proofreading.
Editors Canada Professional Certification
Whether you’re an editor or someone who hires editors, you can benefit from the landmark professional certification program offered by Editors Canada.
Preparation Checklist for Certification Tests
This checklist will help you decide whether you’re ready to take an Editors Canada certification test.
A list of editors who have been certified by Editors Canada.
Professional Development
Editing courses don’t have to be for new editors; sometimes, it’s nice to freshen up an old skill. Queen’s University’s editing courses are designed for experienced editors looking to sharpen their skills, for example—and they are specifically designed to help you prepare for Editors Canada’s certification test. See this list for more available course offerings.
How the Pandemic Allowed Me to Learn a New Skill
Academic editor Glenna Jenkins discusses why and how she learned to use Overleaf, an online, cloud-based LaTeX editor for technical and scientific documents, as well as its features and benefits.
You may be feeling like it’s time to broaden the scope of your offerings. This page has more information about some of your options.
Working with Other Editors: What, Why and How
In this webinar, Letitia and Katherine will present several ways editors can work together with an anti-hustle approach for mutual benefit.
Mentoring
Have you been considering mentoring novice or aspiring editors? In this blog post, freelance editor, writer and mentor Jennifer D. Foster explores the benefits of editorial mentorships for both the mentor and the mentee.
Confident Coaching: How to Share Your Skills and Help Learners Level Up
This seminar will provide ideas on how to develop a supportive relationship with a learner, assess their needs, and plan a roadmap for their editing progress that will help them level up their skills so they will become better revisors of their own work and maybe even ready for editing tasks themselves.
John Eerkes-Medrano Mentorship Program
The John Eerkes-Medrano Mentorship Program offers editors the opportunity to participate in one-on-one mentoring relationships. Mentorship is available to Editors Canada members and student affiliates.
Mentorship: Where the Learners Teach and the Teachers Learn
Anita Jenkins discusses an oft-overlooked aspect of mentoring: when you learn from your mentee.
In this blog post, independent scholar, writing mentor and editor Mary Rykov discusses the importance of mentorship and provides several suggestions for mentors and mentees about how they can improve their relationship.
Master Your Practice With Productivity Skills
Acceptable Copy Editing Productivity Rates and Top 10 Tips for Increasing Productivity
This one-hour webinar will outline acceptable copy editing productivity rates, illustrate how to measure your productivity, and provide 10 tips for increasing your productivity.
Freelance Tips from an Editor with ADHD, Part 1
In part 1 of this two-part blog post series, writer and editor Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa discusses how to approach editing as someone with ADHD, including getting to know yourself, setting up your environment for success and exploring scaffolding strategies.
Freelance Tips from an Editor with ADHD, Part 2
In part 2 of this two-part blog post series, writer and editor Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa continues her discussion about how to approach editing as someone with ADHD and talks about embracing routines that prioritize self-care and seeking help when you need it.
From Chaos to Control: Streamlining Your Editing Agency Operations
This webinar explores examples of processes and systems, as well as templates and technology, all tailored for editing agencies.
How to Get Organized and Stay Productive When You Are Your Own Boss
Freelance editors face a unique challenge: you essentially have two jobs that include editing projects for clients and running your own business. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to manage your time and energy effectively when you are your own boss and you work from home. You’ll also learn how to stay disciplined and improve your productivity without feeling overwhelmed.
Managing “Squirrel” Edits: Avoid Losing Your Way Chasing Global Edits
In a single document, a copy editor may encounter a combination of errors that are one-offs and errors that are likely to occur in multiple places. In this webinar, Claire Fossey looks at some methods to manage these distracting squirrel edits so editors need not fear losing the plot.
Personality-based Productivity
If you’re struggling with productivity, it’s probably because you’re using productivity strategies that aren’t a good fit for your personality. In this webinar, productivity strategist and success coach Sagan Morrow shows you how to align the right productivity techniques with your personality.
Productivity While Working From Home
Working from home effectively requires a different set of skills than working in an office environment. In this webinar, productivity strategist and success coach Sagan Morrow shows you how to manage your work-life balance effectively, provides home office tips and tricks and offers ideas for how to organize yourself so you stay on track with your business goals and priorities, without neglecting your personal life.
To Be More Efficient and Consistent, Build a Better Checklist
Anyone writing, editing or managing any type of communication for a living is feeling the crunch. In this webinar, editor Kelly Schrank discusses how to address a multitude of modern dilemmas with a relatively old-school hack: a checklist.
“I’m a punctilious person,” Aaron Dalton writes in this blog. “I care about the details. And while I consider this trait its own kind of superpower, it’s not without its downsides.” In this blog post, Dalton considers how to stay productive while avoiding burnout.
Expand Your Practice with Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA)
Addressing Ableism in Editing: An Interview with Amanda Leduc
Disability rights advocate and writer Amanda Leduc highlights the need for more disability representation in the publishing industry, including what that means for editors when they edit.
Anti-Islamophobia Editing: Using Inclusive Language and Plain Language to Counter Hate Speech
In December, 2023, Amber Riaz taught “how radical editing can help mitigate the creation and perpetuation of harmful stereotypes.” Riaz explores the intersection of Islamophobia, the media and the Canadian legal system and how editors can help navigate this space to create a more inclusive Canada.
APA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Toolkit for Journal Editors
This comprehensive resource from the American Psychological Association (APA) will be particularly useful for academic editors working with APA style. It covers topics such as inclusive standards when reporting, and exploring bias in peer review.
Ask a Self-Advocate: The Pros and Cons of Person-First and Identity-First Language
Understanding that the disability and neurodivergent communities are not monoliths is integral to equitable editing. In this short article, Jevon Okundaye explains what is person-first and identity-first language, and the pros and cons of each.
James Harbeck discusses how historical uses of the pronoun “you” may inform the way we differentiate between the singular and plural “they.”
The Conscious Style Guide offers resources and articles for writers and editors looking to be more mindful with their language. The website offers advice on appropriate language when editing works about marginalized communities, as well as explorations of current issues facing how these communities are portrayed.
The Diversity Style Guide is a collection of resources that allows editors and other professionals to work in “a complex, multicultural world with accuracy, authority and sensitivity.”
We all approach a text differently. How do we ensure that a text is accessible to all? We step outside of ourselves and take a critical look at the language and visual presentation of a text, among other aspects. In this blog post, Tali Ijack presents tips for keeping accessibility in mind while editing. Use this post to start your own checklist to add to your toolkit.
Editing Indigenous Writing: A Nuanced Partnership
Explanations and resources on how to build foundations and establish trust when working as a settler/settler descendent with Indigenous writers.
Elements of Indigenous Style, 2nd Ed.
The second edition of Elements continues to offer crucial guidance to everyone who works with words on how to accurately, collaboratively, and ethically participate in projects involving Indigenous Peoples.
The Writing Center at the University of North Carolina provides a quick reference page for what is gender inclusive language and what to do when you are unsure of a subject’s gender.
Harness the Power of Neurodiversity to Maximize Your Potential as an Editor
For many neurodiverse editors, meeting deadlines, keeping up with administrative work and maintaining focus are well-known barriers to doing their jobs more effectively. But editors with ADHD often haven’t been taught that they also gain strengths.
We know that language is constantly evolving to reflect rapidly changing social interactions and dynamics. How do we, as editors and publishing professionals, keep up with these changes? How do we express our flexibility, our willingness to change, in our work? What are the issues we need to be aware of as we consider EDI and accessibility?
Inclusive Language — and Inclusive Editing
In this blog post for CIEP, Sarah Grey explores the need to read, and edit, between the lines. Inclusive editing means recognizing how language is used “other”, and what we can do to combat this.
Indigenous Voices: An Interview with Rhonda Kronyk
Sue Archer interviews Rhonda and discusses how to increase the inclusion of Indigenous editors in the Canadian publishing industry.
Mind the Gap! The Point of Sensitivity Reading
Some tips and insights on sensitivity reading and why it matters to editors.
The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide
The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide for Writing About Transgender People recognizes the paradox of writing definitive rules for a diverse group sometimes defined by transitions. Still, this accessible guide is useful for those editing works by and about the transgender community specifically, or those seeking a better understanding of inclusive language.
Sex, Gender and Pronouns: Using the Correct Pronouns for Inclusiveness
Style responsibility requires using inclusive language that reflects diversity and respect for different genders.
Singular They Continues to Be the Focus of Language
ChangeACES contributor, Mark Allen, writes about the state of the epicene they as a singular pronoun. Why are some hesitant to adopt it? Why should editors care?
Some of the Things You Wanted to Know about Alt Text
In this webinar, Amber Riaz answers questions about how alt text is used in different forms of communication to create accessible content for screen reader users. Riaz offers advice on when to use alt text and how to write it. This webinar is valuable for those editing in the digital space.
Tackling Antisemitism in Fiction
In this webinar, we will explore the deep roots of antisemitism in fiction and the harmful ways that antisemitic tropes continue into literature today.
Taking Criticism While Privileged
This article by Pamela Olivier may be framed as how to consider diversity in higher education, but it contains important reminders and lessons for anyone wishing to be more inclusive in how they talk to and listen to minority voices.