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Lessons learned from editing my own writing (and why I haven’t hired a copyeditor… yet)

For months, I’ve been procrastinating a task on my to-do list: copyediting my own blog. I usually copyedit my posts before I publish...

Writing concisely

Especially when writing about complex ideas, writers can struggle to create clear, straightforward, and uncomplicated sentences. Writing...

Key takeaways from Copyediting Crash Course

written by Meg Miller, writer and editor I’ve been an editor for five years and a writer for design and culture publications for longer....

Working as collaborative translators in arts and culture

cowritten with Julia van Duijvenvoorde (Heritage in Translation) At the beginning of 2021, I started working together with Julia van...

Taaldienstenserie: editen, corrigeren, redigeren, nakijken…

Jij hebt een tekst en je weet dat je hulp nodig hebt met jouw tekst. Hoe weet je wat voor soort dienst je nodig hebt? Wat zijn de...

Handy characteristics for copyeditors

My experience with copyediting dates back to my days in high school, when I worked on the high school’s student-run literary magazine....

Resource list

These resources are for (aspiring) copyeditors, proofreaders, writers, copywriters, and anyone else working with language in some way. I...

Editing with style... sheets

I’ve recently discovered the beauty and utility of style sheets. For every editing project that I work on, I usually take notes on a...

Plain language in museums: Breaking the “dumbing-down” myth

Some of you may know me as a copyeditor and language services professional; some of you may know that I worked in museums for nearly a...

Language services series: Copyediting

You have a text, and you know your text needs some help. How do you know what kind of service your text needs? Proofreading, copyediting,...

Danielle N. Carter