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Journal of an Academic Copyeditor
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The Copyeditor as Word Detective: Using Lookalikes and Soundalikes to Crack Word Puzzles
Journal Title Abbreviations in Zotero and a ChatGPT Story
How I Automated Reference Editing with Google Scholar, Zotero, and Citation Style Language
Copying Text with Tracked Changes in MS Word
The Case of the Line That Would Not Go
The Academic Uses of Imprisonment
Copyediting Is Problem Solving
The Mainstreaming of the Word "Shit" in Personal Transformation Parlance
Creative Titles in Scientific Papers
The Difference between "Sum" and "Summation" in Mathematical Writing
Incident in an Editing Office
Spelling Errors in Titles and Headings
When Automatic Footnote Renumbering Fails in Word
The Book That Wrote Me a Letter
The Serendipitous Pleasures of Work-Related Googling
The Case of the Sticky Figure
No Carelessness Until There Is a Cure
A Period Never Follows an Exclamation Mark: An Exception to the Rule
The Case of the Jumping Cursor
The Case of the Jumping Table