Before I take my Christmas break (I’ll be back on 8 January 2023 if plans count for anything), I thought I’d round 2022 off with a (mostly) light-hearted ABC for copyediting.
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A is for attitude; authors; ACES; artwork; accounts; accessibility; author’s voice; apt writing; APA; authenticity
B is for bold; brave; bigotry (anti‑); bibliography; BookMachine; blogging; bias (anti‑); Buzzfeed
C is for Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP); consistency; copyright; checklists; CMOS; conscious language; clients; commas; curiosity; clean-up; continuing professional development (CPD) – and Christmas breaks!
D is for disaster recovery planning; drive; decisions; dictionaries; dialects; diversity; details
E is for Englishes; ergonomics; equality; expectations; editing
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F is for finicky; figures; final checks; fastidiousness
G is for grammar; Google (other search engines are available)
H is for home-working; humanities; Harvard referencing; handover documentation; honesty
I is for italics; introversion; inclusivity; integrity
J is for journals; journey; journalling
K is for knock-on effects (K is hard!)
L is for look-it-up; localising; light touch
M is for memberships; marketing; Microsoft; music to work to
N is for notes; numbers; names; nit-picking
O is for online presence; onboarding; out-of-hours working; overtime; Oxford
P is for processes; PerfectIt; perfection; publishers; pre-press/packagers; punctuation; peeving & pedantry (anti-); procrastination; planning; pacing
Q is for QUIET!!!!!!!!! quotations; queries and yet more queries
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R is for research; resources; references; regionalisms; records; resolutions; rabbit holes
S is for style manuals; style guides; style sheets; social media; sample edits; spreadsheets; social sciences; scheduling; short-title referencing; spelling; stretching
T is for training; tables; time-keeping; Toggl; tracking; testimonials
U is for understanding; US market
V is for Vancouver referencing
W is for wellness; Word; words; websites
X is for xenophobia (anti‑)
Y is for yippee – it’s the holidays!
Z is for zeal; zzzzzzzzz (wake up now, we got to the end!)
What a great bit of seasonal fun, Sue! Thanks for the smile-making read.
You’re welcome, Janet!
Happy holidays!
Sue