As the holiday season approaches, many of us are looking forward to some time away from our desks. It’s also a time when we have to rush to meet those end-of-year deadlines, so in the run-up to the holidays it…
Yearly Archives: 2017
Getting into proofreading – making the most of your transferable skills
When writing my Spotlight entry for the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) website, one of the questions I was asked was ‘What advice do you have for people starting out on an editorial career?’ Meeting new and established editors…
Tagged with: editing business, freelancing, proofreading business, setting up a business, transferable skills
Posted in Starting out, Working from home
Posted in Starting out, Working from home
How to create table headings and figure captions in Microsoft Word
If you’re writing a long document that contains lots of tables, figures or illustrations (for example, a company report or a PhD thesis), using Word’s ‘Insert Caption’ tool helps you format, number and list them more efficiently. In this post,…
Tagged with: captions, headings, Microsoft Word tips, PhD thesis, reports, tables and figures
Posted in Academic writing, Business writing
Posted in Academic writing, Business writing
School proofreading: Do teachers need a safety net too?
I have a confession to make: with a colleague, I proofread secondary-school reports. Not OFSTED reports – the ones that schools send home to students and their parents. I say ‘confession’ because when I mention this to friends and family,…
Tagged with: report writing, School proofreading, school reports, teachers
Posted in School proofreading
Posted in School proofreading
Six ways to improve your author–date (Harvard) reference list
If you’re writing a PhD thesis, your reference list could be longer than an entire journal article. Taming that monster can be tedious, but it’s worth taking the time to get it right. A reference list that looks cared for…
Tagged with: APA referencing, author-date referencing, CSE referencing, dissertations, Harvard referencing, theses
Posted in Academic writing
Posted in Academic writing
Desk bikes – the Tour de Your House
Last Wednesday was National Fitness Day in the UK. Keeping fit’s a doddle if you work from home, isn’t it? You start the day with yoga. Go swimming at lunchtime. On sunny days you put down your pen (or keyboard)…
Tagged with: desk bike, desk cycle, editing, freelancing, proofreading, Wellbeing, Working from home
Posted in Wellbeing, Working from home
Posted in Wellbeing, Working from home
Ten things I learned from the Society for Editors and Proofreaders conference 2017
Earlier in September I drove exactly 150 miles to join approximately 150 other professionals for the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) conference near Cambridge. The theme this year was Context is key: why the answer to most questions is…
Tagged with: editing, freelancing, networking, proofreading
Posted in Conferences and events, Uncategorized
Posted in Conferences and events, Uncategorized
