Why would anyone want to be an (Associate) editor, anyway?
This post is jointly written by Steve Heard and Kathe Todd-Brown. Using the first person for Steve and the third for Kathe seemed less awkward than alternatives, but this should not imply Kathe’s...
View ArticleWhat copyediting is, and what it isn’t
Image: a snippet of the (excellent) copyedit for my forthcoming book. Over the last six months, I’ve had several pieces of writing go through the copyediting process: a few papers, and one book. Over...
View ArticleEdit to polish the writing, or edit to polish the writer?
Image: Polishing the chimney of a Burrell Traction Engine. © Oast House Archives, CC BY-SA 2.0. What? You think this is only tenuously connected to the post? My friend, tenuous connections are my...
View ArticleIn praise of the red pen: editing as an act of caring
This is a guest post from Carly Ziter – liberally red-penned by Steve, who couldn’t agree more! As a PhD student, I’d often arrive at my office (characteristically, late in the morning) to find a...
View ArticleEight is (more than) enough: How peer review gets out of hand
A colleague recently mentioned being astonished to receive eight different peer reviews, on a single manuscript in a single round of reviews at a single journal.* Wasn’t this too many, he asked? And...
View ArticleEditing as conversation
This is a joint post from Steve Heard and Carly Ziter. A few weeks ago, Carly contributed a guest post on editing* as an act of caring. This got the two of us thinking and talking about editing – and...
View ArticleGrading, correcting, and mentoring writing: learning on both sides
I’ve been working on writing with grad students, and other early-career writers, for a startlingly long time now. It’s the usual way for scientific writers to learn their craft: the more junior writer...
View ArticleThree reasons for the red pen
I’m gearing up for the latest offering of my Scientific Writing course, and that’s got me thinking about my (metaphorical) red pen. As scientists, we spend a lot of time commenting on other folks’...
View ArticleWhy would anyone want to be an (Associate) editor, anyway?
This post is jointly written by Steve Heard and Kathe Todd-Brown. Using the first person for Steve and the third for Kathe seemed less awkward than alternatives, but this should not imply Kathe’s...
View ArticleWhat copyediting is, and what it isn’t
Image: a snippet of the (excellent) copyedit for my forthcoming book. Over the last six months, I’ve had several pieces of writing go through the copyediting process: a few papers, and one book. Over...
View ArticleEdit to polish the writing, or edit to polish the writer?
Image: Polishing the chimney of a Burrell Traction Engine. © Oast House Archives, CC BY-SA 2.0. What? You think this is only tenuously connected to the post? My friend, tenuous connections are my...
View ArticleIn praise of the red pen: editing as an act of caring
This is a guest post from Carly Ziter – liberally red-penned by Steve, who couldn’t agree more! As a PhD student, I’d often arrive at my office (characteristically, late in the morning) to find a...
View ArticleEditing as conversation
This is a joint post from Steve Heard and Carly Ziter. A few weeks ago, Carly contributed a guest post on editing* as an act of caring. This got the two of us thinking and talking about editing – and...
View ArticleGrading, correcting, and mentoring writing: learning on both sides
I’ve been working on writing with grad students, and other early-career writers, for a startlingly long time now. It’s the usual way for scientific writers to learn their craft: the more junior writer...
View ArticleThree reasons for the red pen
I’m gearing up for the latest offering of my Scientific Writing course, and that’s got me thinking about my (metaphorical) red pen. As scientists, we spend a lot of time commenting on other folks’...
View ArticleHow long is a manuscript? All answers are wrong.
This week I got to do one of my favourite things: shorten a manuscript.* This one we’re targeting for a journal that has a 30 page limit on manuscript length. We started at 37 pages, and I was...
View ArticleWhy would anyone want to be an (Associate) editor, anyway?
This post is jointly written by Steve Heard and Kathe Todd-Brown. Using the first person for Steve and the third for Kathe seemed less awkward than alternatives, but this should not imply Kathe’s...
View ArticleWhat copyediting is, and what it isn’t
Image: a snippet of the (excellent) copyedit for my forthcoming book. Over the last six months, I’ve had several pieces of writing go through the copyediting process: a few papers, and one book. Over...
View ArticleEdit to polish the writing, or edit to polish the writer?
Image: Polishing the chimney of a Burrell Traction Engine. © Oast House Archives, CC BY-SA 2.0. What? You think this is only tenuously connected to the post? My friend, tenuous connections are my...
View ArticleIn praise of the red pen: editing as an act of caring
This is a guest post from Carly Ziter – liberally red-penned by Steve, who couldn’t agree more! As a PhD student, I’d often arrive at my office (characteristically, late in the morning) to find a...
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