Academic Editing
Academic Editing Special Interest Group
The Academic Editing Special Interest Group, or SIG, is a lively community that plans frequent coffee chats and book clubs, and it sends out regular e-newsletters too.
Academic Book Copy Editing 101
In this webinar, James Harbeck introduces the niche of copy editing academic books.
Beyond STEM: Academic Editing in Social Sciences, Humanities and Education
This 90-minute webinar provides evidence-based strategies to edit academic writing outside of STEM fields.
This webinar teaches you how to help data tell their stories through effective tables and graphs.
Four Basic Structures for a Science Article Aimed at the General Public
In this talk, learn about four different story structures: the news story, the explainer, the feature, and the profile.
Guidelines for Ethical Editing of Student Texts (2024)
Editors Canada has developed guidelines for the ethical editing of English-language papers, theses and dissertations of both undergraduate and graduate students. The guidelines are based on research with university administrators and members of Editors Canada who have experience in editing such student work. Included in this link is a permission form to confirm the scope of your editing services to students.
Resumé Writing vs. Resumé Editing: What Do Resumé Writers Do?
Do you have an interest in career services? In this blog post, copy editor Tanya Mykhaylychenko discusses the differences between what resumé editors and resumé writers do, as well as tips and resources on how to become a resumé writer.
Sharing Your Editing Knowledge: How to Teach and Train Students and Clients
Sharing your editing skills with other adult learners can be rewarding, but it can also be intimidating. In this webinar, Suzanne Bowness shares insights from her formal adult learning training plus her 15+ years of teaching experience in writing courses in college and university settings.
Standards at Work: Academic Editing
In this 2018 post, Standards Communication Task Force explains how the Professional Editorial Standards helps inform their work for academic clients.
Why Academic Editors Should Read The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors
An invitation to a 60-minute Q&A about The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors.
Why Academic Editors Should Read Black Feminist Writing
An invitation to a 60-minute Q&A about Black Feminist Writing, where academic writers and editors will learn about advice and details of the often-hidden processes of academic publishing.
Writing and Editing Spoken Word
Speeches, presentations, podcasts, webinars, videos and other spoken materials need special consideration when you’re writing or editing them. The standard tone, style, punctuation and grammar rules don’t always apply. This session will help writers and editors create better spoken content by reviewing the differences between printed and spoken materials in detail.
Grant Writing and Editing
Academic Research Grants: Understanding the Peer Reviewers’ Perspective
Between November 2023 and July 2024, Letitia Henville interviewed over 150 former peer reviewers from the CIHR Project, NFRF Explorations, NSERC Discovery, and SSHRC Insight and Insight Development competitions. This webinar shares peer reviewers’ perspectives on reading, scoring, and discussing grant applications, and provides advice to grant editors based on peer reviewers’ unwritten rules.
Getting Into In-House Research Grants Editing
This free, 60-minute webinar describes the political trends that have led to the emergence of research grant facilitation as a field. Letitia Henville addresses the work grant facilitators, editors and officers perform, and shares her top suggestions for applying for in-house jobs.
Introduction to Academic Research Grants
In this 60-minute webinar, Letitia Henville, a former in-house grants editor and now author of the monthly University Affairs column “Ask Dr. Editor,” shares details about the written and unwritten rules that grant applicants should follow.
Masterclass on Grant Writing and Editing
An overview and introduction through the intricacies of a grant application from inception to completion.
Thinking About Grant Editing Services? This Book Could Help
Marlies Gabriele Prinzl discusses how Betty Lai’s The Grant Writing Guide, written for academics, can also be helpful for editors who offer this service or would like to.
Top Three Fixes for Academic Research Grant Applications
If you only have an hour or two to review a grant application, these are the top three fixes you should address.
Corporate Editing
A Day in the Life of a Communications Manager: Marianne Grier
Marianne Grier describes how her editing experience has helped her in her role as operations manager for communication and messaging at Lululemon.
A Day in the Life of a Content Marketing Specialist: Maggie Clark
Experience a day in the life of content marketing specialist Maggie Clark, who discusses the intersection between editing and marketing.
Aie! Not Enough Time: How to Do Quick & Dirty Corporate Edits
How to get maximum results when you have minimum time.
Editing for Effective PowerPoint
This seminar teaches individuals how to create and edit PowerPoint.
How to Market Your Services to the Feds
The Government of Canada, one of this country’s biggest markets, is eager to do business with the tiniest of firms.
Leading a Team in a Corporate Workplace
Plain language expert Gael Spivak offers advice and tips on managing a team of editors and writers.
Meet an Editor: Gael Spivak Shares How Editing Increased Canada’s Trade
Gael, a plain language writer and editor for the government, shares her most memorable editing project, in which she contributed to millions of dollars in trade for Canada.
Meet an Editor: Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa Explains the Work Professional Editors Do
Jahleen is a medical-legal and non-fiction editor. Her goal as an editor is to learn more about the things that really matter to her clients.
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. If you work with corporate or non-profit clients, or want to improve your own business communications, this webinar will teach you practical tips and valuable business skills.
Proofreading for Businesses and Ad Agencies
Proofreading for businesses and ad agencies can be a lucrative field for a keen-eyed proofreader. This webinar explors how corporate proofreading differs from traditional proofreading.
Resumé Writing vs. Resumé Editing: What Do Resumé Writers Do?
Do you have an interest in career services? In this blog post, copy editor Tanya Mykhaylychenko discusses the differences between what resumé editors and resumé writers do, as well as tips and resources on how to become a resumé writer.
Transferring Editorial Skills to the World of Content Design
“Content design” is the current buzzword in the tech industry for the critical skills that editors practice on a day-to-day basis. In this session, Christina Vasilevski discusses how editors can transfer their skills to the world of tech, as well as some of the tools and techniques she uses on a daily basis as a content designer for one of Canada’s major banks.
Writing and Editing Spoken Word
Speeches, presentations, podcasts, webinars, videos and other spoken materials need special consideration when you’re writing or editing them. The standard tone, style, punctuation and grammar rules don’t always apply. This session will help writers and editors create better spoken content by reviewing the differences between printed and spoken materials in detail.
Editing for Government
Thinking about preparing to bid on government contracts? This is the place to start. Find the resources and services available to support your business, including a procurement-related event calendar, workshops, seminars and other resources for businesses interested in selling goods and services to government.
Emergency Linguistics: The Translation of Public Health Information in Emergency Situations
In this blog post, Barbara McClintock advocates for language professionals to be involved in government communications to protect vulnerable communities.
How to Market Your Services to the Feds
The Government of Canada, one of this country’s biggest markets, is eager to do business with the tiniest of firms. Though this post was published in 2017, much here about marketing yourself remains useful.
Social Procurement to Woo Female-Led Firms, Among Others
While this post was published in 2019 and much has changed since then, it provides some context about how landing government contracts evolves according to national elections, an important consideration for anyone thinking about this line of work.
Winning Contracts with the Government of Canada
This blog post is from 2017, but we leave it here for those interested in reading about the history of government contracts.
Your Government Goals for 2020
Marion Soubliere discusses how you can bolster your Government of Canada client revenues.
Editing Journalism
Canadian Press Online Stylebook & Caps and Spelling BundleAs a member of Editors Canada, you have access to the web-based, fully searchable versions of The Canadian Press Stylebook and Caps and Spelling.
Do you have what it takes to be a New York Times copyeditor? Try your hand at challenging edits from real New York Times articles.
That Crepuscular Light: Metaphor and Ornamental Language in News Writing
As journalism moves away from the heavily formulaic inverted-pyramid story and toward more sophisticated literary forms and techniques, one task for writers and editors is to evaluate the effectiveness of metaphor and figurative language. This workshop is a starting point.
Legal Editing
An Introduction to Medicolegal Report Editing
Medicolegal reports are documents written by medical experts to help the court in legal contexts, such as medical malpractice or personal injury cases. Medicolegal report editing is a little-known niche that offers a sizable source of potential work for editors and proofreaders with experience in editing medical content.
Editing Medical-Legal Reports: An Interview with Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa
In an interview with Merel Elsinga, Jahleen Turnbull-Sousa discusses what it’s like to work as a medical-legal editor.
In this beginner webinar, Marie-Hélène Girard, professional legal translator and legal language specialist, teaches you everything you need to know about the law to make informed decisions about writing, editing and translating in the legal field.
Publishing
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.
How to Set a Realistic Production Schedule
Knowing the publishing process and setting and maintaining realistic schedules are fundamentals all professional editors need, regardless of which stage they are working. This webinar focuses on scheduling the full publication production process; if you want to manage the publishing process, you need these skills.
Written for in-house editors, this post by Aaron Dalton discusses in-house style guides and lessons from case studies to help editors better understand style guides in the workplace.
On Resolving to Publish: Book Publishing in 2021 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic affected many industries, including book publishing. This blog post discusses how the pandemic influenced the book publishing industry for both authors and publishing professionals and what these changes mean for the future of publishing.
Preparing for Traditional Publishing: Tips from Agents and Editors
Laura Bontje always asks her writers how they hope to publish their book, as this information is useful at every stage of editing. Seeking greater clarity about the publishing process, she interviews four agents and editors.
Editors Canada offers services for in-house editors, with the understanding that this career offers specific challenges, contexts and opportunities.
Working with Publishers as a Freelance Editor
Crystal Shelley (the rabbit with a red pen) answers common questions about how to get your foot in a publisher’s door as a freelance editor.
Fiction Editing
Concordances: Character and Plot
Two years and many books are between Book One and Book Two. You pick up the second book’s manuscript to edit it — and you freeze. Who was that minor character, again? What were we doing? When did Main Character get that scar? 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.
This session covers one experienced editor’s approach to copy editing fiction for mainstream publishers.
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.
The Editing Process for Fiction Authors
Want to get your fiction manuscript into top shape, but don’t know where to start? Start here! This short series breaks down the fiction editing process into understandable and accessible chunks.
Introduction to Editing Speculative Fiction
In this webinar, editors Tanya Gold and Genevieve Clovis discuss the speculative fiction niche.
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.
Self-Editing for Fiction Authors
Self-editing can be a daunting task for fiction writers, whether they are new or seasoned authors. This webinar is for fiction writers at any stage in their career and for editors looking to help fiction clients with self-editing.
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.
Tips for Editors New to Horror
Some tips for editors working with horror fiction.
Worldbuilding in Fiction Editing: Theory and Practice
Plot, characters, and setting are the essence of good storytelling. In this webinar geared towards developmental editors, Andrew Hodges and Genevieve Clovis guide you through approaches to worldbuilding theory and practice.
Memoir and Creative Nonfiction
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.
On the first Wednesday of the month, the Northwest Editors Guild hosts a networking space for memoir editors to share strategies, successes and challenges. The event is free, online and open to all editors.
Standards at Work: Memoir Editing
What does the Professional Editorial Standards say about editing memoirs? This short blog posts by Shelley Egan answers that question and is a must-read for anyone working with memoirs.
Poetry
Going From “How You Write a Poem” to “Listen to How The Poet Writes”
This webinar walks the totally terrified through the basics of editing poetry. Participants will learn how to listen to a poet’s voice and find ways to enhance that voice within the framework of the poet’s understanding of what poetry is.
Recipes and Cookbooks
Freelance Editing in the Cookbook and Recipe Niche
In this webinar, attendees will be introduced to the exciting world of cookbook and recipe editing. Lauren will cover the basics of editing recipes and speak to some of the unique challenges associated with this niche.
Whether for soufflé, soup, salsa or something else altogether, a culinary recipe is essentially a how-to document. As a form of technical editing, recipe editing is all about ensuring that the user (the reader) can successfully assemble the product (a dish).
Young Writers and Readers
Beyond Once Upon a Time: Intro to Editing Picture Books
Laura Bontje shares tips and examples to help new and aspiring picture book editors gain confidence.
Tips on editing and working with young writers.
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM)
Beginner’s Guide to Editing in LaTeX
LaTeX is the “de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.” This webinar provides a basic understanding of LaTeX and teaches you how to edit effectively within LaTeX.
Editing for Engineers and Scientists
Want to work with scientific or engineering documents but not sure where to start? This webinar covers the tools you need to approach these projects with confidence.
Editing Manuscripts for Submission to a Scientific or Medical Journal
Many editors and medical communicators stumble into working on manuscripts for scientific or medical journals with little to no training on how to perform a good edit, or what’s required to shepherd a manuscript from draft to submission. Seasoned scientific and medical journal editors will learn some new tricks from this session, and those new to this editing field will get an essential primer.
This webinar teaches you how to help data tell their stories through effective tables and graphs.
Four Basic Structures for a Science Article Aimed at the General Public
In this talk, learn about four different story structures: the news story, the explainer, the feature, and the profile.
Transferring Editorial Skills to the World of Content Design
“Content design” is the current buzzword in the tech industry for the critical skills that editors practice on a day-to-day basis. In this session, Christina Vasilevski discusses how editors can transfer their skills to the world of tech, as well as some of the tools and techniques she uses on a daily basis as a content designer for one of Canada’s major banks.
Combining Career Interests
Combining Careers, Part One: Vocational Discernment
Kate Nerriman explains how spiritual and psychological practices led her to find her second career as an editor.
Combining Careers, Part Two: Rewards—Financial and Other
Kate Merriman reflects on the benefits of blending her pastoral background with a career in scholarly editing.