Laura A. Miller, ELS

Professional freelance medical editor. Board-certified by the Board of Editors in the Life Sciences.

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@TheWrightMyke @andyhre @Dictionarycom Because I asked nicely, I'm glad you answered in the affirmative since we last tweeted.

[ACES: The Society for Editing (use other social) @ACESEditors]

“Every editor manages relationships.” How they’re managed may look a bit different for in-house editors as opposed to freelancers, but there are similarities as well. Gael Spivak of @editorscanada explains: https://t.co/31Wc1MmtDW #amediting #inhouse #freelance #relationships

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Periodic table of copyediting https://t.co/pyhlJo9ZOZ

[Dictionary.com @Dictionarycom]

They has been in use as a singular pronoun since the 1300s. Among its best known users in history: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen.

https://t.co/nQcNSgnd0Q

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Looking to support your Editorial Dept to help deliver high-quality HCP, CME, and DTC content? Get in touch! Avail for remote freelance AMA editing. >13 y in publications/advertising and healthcare comms #editor #amediting #meded #pharmajobs #agencylife https://t.co/X1noZj2Ec8

[The OED @OED]

The father of the American Dictionary, Noah Webster, was born #OTD in 1758, & today is accordingly celebrated as #DictionaryDay. Here's our entry for WEBSTERIAN, adj.:

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Help me, help you. You know I'm going to tell you to add Oxford commas. Please add them before I copyedit your manuscript to save 250 extraneous comments. #medicalediting #medediting #amediting #AMAstyle #AMA

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@HuffPost

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

10 New Favorite MS Word Tricks for Editors https://t.co/efyGXlHzmB

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Don't make me get the shusher.

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When your autocorrect wants to change perennial to perianal #meditor #AMA wrong kind of #landscaping

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

The multiplication sign (×) may be used to express area (eg, a 15 × 35-cm² burn), volume (eg, a 5.2 × 3.7 × 6.9-m³ cube), matrixes (eg, 2 × 2 table), magnification (×30 000), or scientific notation (eg, 3.6 × 10⁹/L).
More on math notation in Chapter 21 https://t.co/JtXdMNZEO0

[AMA Manual of Style @AMAManual]

Yes, still health care.
(Except Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) https://t.co/N0igruGqoX

[APStylebook @APStylebook]

We've changed our style to one word for “homepage.” We added “smartwatch” and “timeshare” as one word. But: “health care.” #APStyleChat

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Blindly grabbing for computer mouse; inevitably grab a Transformers toy my child has left on my desk. That I've asked them not to put on my desk no fewer than 8000 times. #freelancer #medicaleditor #WorkFromHome #workingmom

[Novartis @Novartis]

BREAKING: The @US_FDA has approved our first-in-class #CARTcell therapy for a second indication. #NovartisNews https://t.co/TjPrZpnXgX

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1:30 AM---Day 0--not bad for a launch. Now, to survive the next 9 days.

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Nothing like waiting for a deck at midnight!!!

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In short, editing is not math.

Sometimes writers need to be reminded that writing is an artform, not a science.

And so do some editors.

https://t.co/vi4vNk4edN via @copyediting