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Journal of an Academic Copyeditor
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How I Automated Reference Editing with Google Scholar, Zotero, and Citation Style Language
Reference Lists and Me: From Zero to Hero Until very recently, I used to hate editing references. I know some copyeditors enjoy it (did...
Copying Text with Tracked Changes in MS Word
I had to deal with this problem when I copied and pasted a chapter from a book into a new document, only to discover that the tracked...
The Case of the Line That Would Not Go
A misplaced horizontal line in an MS Word document I was editing had to go. The problem was that it stubbornly dug its heels in and...
The Academic Uses of Imprisonment
An inescapable part of editing academic material is Internet research, which can unexpectedly entertain and inform (see The Serendipitous...
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