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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

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

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

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

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. Sign up now to learn more: https://webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_webinar/academic-book-copy-editing-101/

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#CopyEditing #AcademicEditing #Editing

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. Sign up now to learn more: https://webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_webinar/academic-book-copy-editing-101/

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#CopyEditing #AcademicEditing #Editing

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I'm working, I line up the necessary browser tabs with the care any artisan shows their tools of trade

my email

my stylesheet doc

the Chicago Manual of Style

WorldCat

and 2 search tabs for the queries that will arise

#AcademicEditing

When I'm working, I line up the necessary browser tabs with the care any artisan shows their tools of trade

my email

my stylesheet doc

the Chicago Manual of Style

WorldCat

and 2 search tabs for the queries that will arise

#AcademicEditing

When I'm working, I line up the necessary browser tabs with the care any artisan shows their tools of trade

my email

my stylesheet doc

the Chicago Manual of Style

WorldCat

and 2 search tabs for the queries that will arise

#AcademicEditing

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

#AcademicPublishing #AcademicEditing #PublicationEthics

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

#AcademicPublishing #AcademicEditing #PublicationEthics

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

#AcademicPublishing #AcademicEditing #PublicationEthics

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

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

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

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 is often the case, this story starts with an odd warning in a client’s LaTeX manuscript. I clean up as many errors and warnings as I can as a first step because they can often mask other problems. This time, I ran across a warning that was new to me: “The type was already set to `table' on input line 13."

Here, I go through the solution and why it works: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/tools/figure-environments-dont-have-to-enclose-graphics/

#TeXLaTeX #AcademicEditing

As is often the case, this story starts with an odd warning in a client’s LaTeX manuscript. I clean up as many errors and warnings as I can as a first step because they can often mask other problems. This time, I ran across a warning that was new to me: “The type was already set to `table' on input line 13."

Here, I go through the solution and why it works: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/tools/figure-environments-dont-have-to-enclose-graphics/

#TeXLaTeX #AcademicEditing

As is often the case, this story starts with an odd warning in a client’s LaTeX manuscript. I clean up as many errors and warnings as I can as a first step because they can often mask other problems. This time, I ran across a warning that was new to me: “The type was already set to `table' on input line 13."

Here, I go through the solution and why it works: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/tools/figure-environments-dont-have-to-enclose-graphics/

#TeXLaTeX #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
1/7

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
1/7

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
1/7

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
1/7

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
1/7

New Post: Fun with Percentages: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/usage/fun-with-percentages/

It’s Friday afternoon. Let’s do some math.

Some of the most frequent corrections I make in clients’ manuscripts are around percentages, usually untangling confusion between percent changes and percentage point changes. We have to be careful about how we refer to the results of calculations involving percentages.

#AmEditing #AmWriting #AcademicWriting #AcademicEditing
1/3

New Post: Fun with Percentages: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/usage/fun-with-percentages/

It’s Friday afternoon. Let’s do some math.

Some of the most frequent corrections I make in clients’ manuscripts are around percentages, usually untangling confusion between percent changes and percentage point changes. We have to be careful about how we refer to the results of calculations involving percentages.

#AmEditing #AmWriting #AcademicWriting #AcademicEditing
1/3

New Post: Fun with Percentages: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/articles/usage/fun-with-percentages/

It’s Friday afternoon. Let’s do some math.

Some of the most frequent corrections I make in clients’ manuscripts are around percentages, usually untangling confusion between percent changes and percentage point changes. We have to be careful about how we refer to the results of calculations involving percentages.

#AmEditing #AmWriting #AcademicWriting #AcademicEditing
1/3

From now till the end of the year, my course LaTeX for Academic Editing is 15% off with coupon EOY2023.

If you’re an academic editor or author interested in working with LaTeX or learning more about it, check it out the current and planned curriculum here: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/courses/latex-for-academic-editors/

#AcademicEditing #AmEditing @edibuddies

From now till the end of the year, my course LaTeX for Academic Editing is 15% off with coupon EOY2023.

If you’re an academic editor or author interested in working with LaTeX or learning more about it, check it out the current and planned curriculum here: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/courses/latex-for-academic-editors/

#AcademicEditing #AmEditing @edibuddies

From now till the end of the year, my course LaTeX for Academic Editing is 15% off with coupon EOY2023.

If you’re an academic editor or author interested in working with LaTeX or learning more about it, check it out the current and planned curriculum here: https://www.wordsbywes.ink/courses/latex-for-academic-editors/

#AcademicEditing #AmEditing @edibuddies

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

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

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

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

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

#indexing #copyediting #proofreading #academicediting

Are you an academic editor or interested in becoming one? In the newest Editors' Weekly post, Emily Lam shares an update on the joint Editors Canada and EFA #AcademicEditing special interest group and how you can get involved! https://blog.editors.ca/?p=10288

Are you an academic editor or interested in becoming one? In the newest Editors' Weekly post, Emily Lam shares an update on the joint Editors Canada and EFA #AcademicEditing special interest group and how you can get involved! https://blog.editors.ca/?p=10288

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

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

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

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

Real pig-in-shit moment as a #copyeditor and #proofreader coming up with a coherent set of style choices for replacing textual brackets with other punctuation, so that my decisions become intelligible to the author and to other editors

This is specific to works that use author–date citation styles, to reserve brackets for the citations and for supplementary info, e.g. "World War II (1939–1945)"

But it's also just refreshing for me to codify a set of choices that was previously intuitive to me. I've learned grammar post-hoc to understand why certain choices feel 'right' or 'wrong', and I still often don't know certain linguistic terms; I'm a Gestalt editor who reads holistically for meaning

I swear to god, I feel at my most neurodivergent when I'm going deep on semantics

it embarrasses me to suspect that other people don't think so hard about "what words mean"

they probably think I'm splitting hairs, but to me, it's vital to express myself absolutely precisely

#Editing #AcademicEditing #Proofreading #Copyediting

Real pig-in-shit moment as a #copyeditor and #proofreader coming up with a coherent set of style choices for replacing textual brackets with other punctuation, so that my decisions become intelligible to the author and to other editors

This is specific to works that use author–date citation styles, to reserve brackets for the citations and for supplementary info, e.g. "World War II (1939–1945)"

But it's also just refreshing for me to codify a set of choices that was previously intuitive to me. I've learned grammar post-hoc to understand why certain choices feel 'right' or 'wrong', and I still often don't know certain linguistic terms; I'm a Gestalt editor who reads holistically for meaning

I swear to god, I feel at my most neurodivergent when I'm going deep on semantics

it embarrasses me to suspect that other people don't think so hard about "what words mean"

they probably think I'm splitting hairs, but to me, it's vital to express myself absolutely precisely

#Editing #AcademicEditing #Proofreading #Copyediting

Real pig-in-shit moment as a #copyeditor and #proofreader coming up with a coherent set of style choices for replacing textual brackets with other punctuation, so that my decisions become intelligible to the author and to other editors

This is specific to works that use author–date citation styles, to reserve brackets for the citations and for supplementary info, e.g. "World War II (1939–1945)"

But it's also just refreshing for me to codify a set of choices that was previously intuitive to me. I've learned grammar post-hoc to understand why certain choices feel 'right' or 'wrong', and I still often don't know certain linguistic terms; I'm a Gestalt editor who reads holistically for meaning

I swear to god, I feel at my most neurodivergent when I'm going deep on semantics

it embarrasses me to suspect that other people don't think so hard about "what words mean"

they probably think I'm splitting hairs, but to me, it's vital to express myself absolutely precisely

#Editing #AcademicEditing #Proofreading #Copyediting

A feeling of anticipatory relish that comes with making a fresh new style sheet for a new client

god I am such a tragic nerd

#AcademicEditing

A feeling of anticipatory relish that comes with making a fresh new style sheet for a new client

god I am such a tragic nerd

#AcademicEditing

A feeling of anticipatory relish that comes with making a fresh new style sheet for a new client

god I am such a tragic nerd

#AcademicEditing

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