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Is academic copy editing for you? Find out in our Oct. 21 webinar with James Harbeck, which will examine the particularities of copy #editing academic books and the skills required. This is a fascinating specialty that can’t be approached quite the same way as copy editing mainstream trade books and magazines. Sign up now to learn more: https://webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_webinar/academic-book-copy-editing-101/

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#CopyEditing #AcademicEditing

The journal I'm guest editing for doesn't do the decision-paralysis-inducing major and minor revisions anymore. Recently there's only 'revise' -- everything feels immediately 300% lighter and fluffier.

#AcademicEditing

The journal I'm guest editing for doesn't do the decision-paralysis-inducing major and minor revisions anymore. Recently there's only 'revise' -- everything feels immediately 300% lighter and fluffier.

#AcademicEditing

I received an email from #Clarivate that a reviewer of an article I handled would like feedback on their #PeerReview.

I am usually inclined to support development, but I cannot find out how the data I provide are going to be used.

I am asked for quantitative ratings (clarity, helpfulness etc) which won't be shared with the reviewer. And I can provide written comments, which will be shared.

Anyone experience to share?

#AcademicChatter #AcademicEditing #AcademicPublishing #Publons

Is there somewhere a list of journals whose editorial boards have stepped down (say in the last three or four years)?

#AcademicPublishing #AcademicEditing #PublicationEthics

It has not been a secret for a while, but now it is official:

My two terms as CoEiC come to an end in Dec 2024, and the deadline for applications has been made public:
🔥 06.05.2024

More information on our parent society's pages here:
https://www.isoqol.org/isoqol-seeks-co-editor-in-chief-qlr-2024/

#NightshiftEditor #HRQL #AcademicPublishing #AcademicEditing

As usual for the new year, I’m getting requests to edit dissertations that have final submission deadlines of ... now. That rarely works well. Editors can only handle so many last-minute manuscripts, and that number is often zero.

So, this seems like a good time to mention: if you’re working on a dissertation or JMP due even at the end of this term and you want it professionally edited, it is not to early to start talking to editors.

#AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #AcademicEditing
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As usual for the new year, I’m getting requests to edit dissertations that have final submission deadlines of ... now. That rarely works well. Editors can only handle so many last-minute manuscripts, and that number is often zero.

So, this seems like a good time to mention: if you’re working on a dissertation or JMP due even at the end of this term and you want it professionally edited, it is not to early to start talking to editors.

#AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter #AcademicEditing
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I have mentioned these sources before, but after two very intensive months of #AcademicEditing and #PeerReview of observational research I feel compelled to share them again:

1) STROBE Elaboration document to guide writeup:
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297

2) Tutorial on Directed Acyclic Graphs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821727/

3) Principles of confounder selection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6447501/

4) Table 2 Fallacy
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/177/4/292/147738

5) Prognosis vs intervention
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/6/2074/5831974

#NightshiftEditor

Joanne Greenhalgh offers in her presidential address opening the 30th annual meeting an overview across the decades of #ISOQOL.

Humbling to be reminded that I am leading an institution that pre-dated many of the society's activities and was instrumental in setting it up.

#HRQL #AcademicEditing

Another #PeerReview finished.

Paper ~ 5000 words
Review ~ 1700 words
Duration ~ 1.75 hours

I recently had a discussion with an editorial board whether reporting #checklists should be mandatory. The board suggested that this would limit creativity and openness.

Most checklists only say what should be minimally reported and are rarely otherwise normative.

It would have helped this manuscript, so that I would have understood what the authors had done.

#AcademicEditing #ResearchWriting

The "Reviewer's guide to #QuantitativeMethods" provides a concise summary of what to learn about and how to plan & report studies employing 31 (2nd ed. apparently 35) methods: https://www.routledge.com/The-Reviewers-Guide-to-Quantitative-Methods-in-the-Social-Sciences/Hancock-Stapleton-Mueller/p/book/9781138800137

Since it is a book, it will be difficult for many to get access. Does anyone know whether at least the checklists have been published somewhere #OpenAccess?

And is there a #QualitativeMethods version?

#ResearchMethods #PeerReview #StudyDesign #ResearchWriting #AcademicEditing #SocialSciences

Yesssss one of my editing clients just got their manuscript accepted for publication at their preferred press!!! 🎉📚🤓

#editing #academicEditing #humanities

Holy shit, #UQ already has a #ChatGPT #citation protocol in place, which I stumbled across just now

In addition to this master page, each style guide they publish mentions how to integrate ChatGPT outputs and makes it super clear that you have to clear your use of ChatGPT with your lecturer

#AcademicWriting #AcademicEditing

https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/referencing/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-tools

Holy shit, #UQ already has a #ChatGPT #citation protocol in place, which I stumbled across just now

In addition to this master page, each style guide they publish mentions how to integrate ChatGPT outputs and makes it super clear that you have to clear your use of ChatGPT with your lecturer

#AcademicWriting #AcademicEditing

https://guides.library.uq.edu.au/referencing/chatgpt-and-generative-ai-tools

I know people like to rip on academics, but I do a fair amount of editing for doctoral students and professors and such, and so much of it feels like play. Take an idea, toss it around, see what it can do. It delights me. #AmEditing #AcademicEditing #Academics

sometimes I feel a little sad for the lowly co-authors way, way down the list who never get their names mentioned in citations

I can call you Ibid
And Ibid when you call me
You can call me Et Al.

#StupidAcademicSongs
#AcademicEditing

The first issue of my new newsletter, Notes on Editing, goes out Monday morning. It has an update on my upcoming LaTeX for Academic Editors course and an overview of how I use PerfectIt for LaTeX manuscripts. Sign up here if you’d like to get it: https://signup.wordsbywes.ink/notes-on-editing

#AcademicEditing #PerfectIt #TexLaTeX #LaTeX #NoTheOtherLatex @edibuddies

The first issue of my new newsletter, Notes on Editing, goes out Monday morning. It has an update on my upcoming LaTeX for Academic Editors course and an overview of how I use PerfectIt for LaTeX manuscripts. Sign up here if you’d like to get it: https://signup.wordsbywes.ink/notes-on-editing

#AcademicEditing #PerfectIt #TexLaTeX #LaTeX #NoTheOtherLatex @edibuddies

Join Katharine O'Moore-Klopf of @KOKEdit as she talks about the ins-and-outs of #AcademicEditing for multilingual authors and shares best practices.

Working with ESL/EFL/Multilingual Authors
A talk by Katharine O'Moore-Klopf
January 27, 2023, at 12:30 p.m., EST/ 9:30 a.m., PST
RSVP: https://bit.ly/lets-talk-about-event-series-january-23

Hosted by The Editorial Freelancers Association and @EditorsCanada joint Academic Editing Chapter.

Thanks to everyone who shared and was present, and to the organisers!

@EditorsCanada @edibuddies @editors

#AmEditing #AcademicEditing #rates

Am behind several weeks on #writing even though it's just for my #blog due to illness. It's very frustrating. Am trying to get everything in line in order to launch into #academicediting as a #freelance agent but I could barely get out of bed for more than six hours per day this week.

Husband and I have joked that #chronicillness / #chronicfatigue is a #curse without known origin in the dastardly plans of some wizard. I'm sick of the damsel role, plz someone get my archnemesis to quit it.

Are you an Academic Editor or interested in learning more about academic editing? Join the Editorial Freelancers Association and Editors Canada Academic Editing Group for our first monthly meet-up and get to know a growing community of #AcademicEditors.

Show & Tell (over your favourite beverage)
December 15, 2022 @ 10 a.m., PST / 1 p.m., EST
RSVP at https://bit.ly/academic-editing-meet-up-december-22

All are welcome!

#editing
#AmEditing
#EditingCommunity
#AcademicEditing
#EditorsCanada
#EditorialFreelancersAssociation

Important reading on use of the phrase 'sub-Saharan Africa'. Coming to this rather late, but it's bugged me a lot and now I know why. #AcWri and #AcademicEditing can do better.

Geographically inaccurate and confusing: https://qz.com/africa/770350/why-do-we-still-say-subsaharan-africa

Rooted in divisive, racist thought: https://www.africanexponent.com/bpost/rethinking-the-term-sub-saharan-africa-36

H/t @BettyTekola
#AmEditing
#ConsciousLanguage

Important reading on use of the phrase 'sub-Saharan Africa'. Coming to this rather late, but it's bugged me a lot and now I know why. #AcWri and #AcademicEditing can do better.

Geographically inaccurate and confusing: https://qz.com/africa/770350/why-do-we-still-say-subsaharan-africa

Rooted in divisive, racist thought: https://www.africanexponent.com/bpost/rethinking-the-term-sub-saharan-africa-36

H/t @BettyTekola
#AmEditing
#ConsciousLanguage

I wish publishers would as a matter of course provide online tables of contents for all their edited books that include page ranges, for tired copyeditors who have to research this stuff because the page range is missing from the reference list

Some publishers do this and they are legends! Others do not. Whether this stuff is in library catalogues is kind of up to whether a librarian felt like they could be bothered on the day

#AcademicEditing #Bibliography #ResearchSkills

Got my stupid editing song in my head again:

(extremely Frank Sinatra voice)
Chicago, Chicago, that manual of style!
Chicago, Chicago, I'll edit a while
I love it!
Betcha bottom footnote you'll choose to use
with Chicago, Chicago
The style that Kate Turabian can't shut down!
I had the time, the time of my life, and
I know which compound words take a hyphen
Chicago! My home style!

#Academic #AcademicEditing #Copyediting #Citation #Referencing #CMOS #ChicagoManualOfStyle #Turabian

I’ve been lurking for a couple of weeks since popping over from the other place, so I guess it’s past time for an #introduction.

Hi! I’m Wes. I do academic, technical, and nonfiction editing, mainly on stuff related to computer science, AI, ML, economics, and finance.

#AcademicEditing #CopyEdtiing #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Economics #Finance

I’ve been lurking for a couple of weeks since popping over from the other place, so I guess it’s past time for an #introduction.

Hi! I’m Wes. I do academic, technical, and nonfiction editing, mainly on stuff related to computer science, AI, ML, economics, and finance.

#AcademicEditing #CopyEdtiing #ComputerScience #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Economics #Finance

The need to make a living means I do not published much, but last year I was able to reflect, with Kerstin von der Krone, on the _History of Knowledge_ blog (https://historyofknowledge.net) at the end of my 10+ years at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC.

"Blogging Histories of Knowledge in Washington, DC," in _Geschichte und Gesellschaft_, https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.13109/gege.2021.47.1.163

#HistKnow #HistSci #ScholarlyComm #SciComm #AcademicCommunication #HistoryBlogs #AcademicBlogs #AcademicEditing #histodons