Magic Wand Editing

Jennifer Rubio, copyeditor and proofreader. 15+ years of experience in health, politics & policy, and news media. Mommy to a very good kitty.

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This man is a hero.

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Link of the day, courtesy of a co-worker: https://t.co/TZw8Y1EB6f

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"have full confidence in our ability to" ----> "can"

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I feel like I've been on Page 19 of 25 forever. Someone tell me there's an end to this!

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@The_GrammarGeek 👀👀 That's a surprise. You'd think they'd want to distinguish the general term from the organization.

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Thanks to everyone for keeping those of us #NotAtACES apprised of those all-important AP style changes!

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Is it me, or is "Spell out a number if it begins a sentence" possibly the dumbest rule there is? *grumbling over "87% of students do such-and-such*

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Making new connections with other editors and proofreaders at #ACESaccelerate this week! Hello to all!

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I keep wanting to change "OGP" to "GOP" in this edit. Very American-centric of me. But my brain keeps tripping over it anyway. #amediting

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Stetting "incented" like

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Hmm. Can't say I like this new Word feature to highlight spell-check items when you mouse over them. I keep thinking there's a comment on the word. #MicrosoftWord #amediting

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Happy New Year! I've revised my website at https://t.co/F63JRjBKuu - now you can learn more about what I do (and what I do best) and new services such as reference formatting!

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Today in "words that are not nearly as exciting as they sound": electrovaporization. #amediting

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More newspapers and magazines ought to put the citation information (headline, author, date) in front of the paywall. Had to cancel a bunch of subscriptions I made two weeks ago for an endnote project and I have to jump through ALL the hoops now.

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I would like to offer my sympathies to anyone who had to read today’s CNN chyron that said scientists were “pouring over” data.

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Today's mystery: why does @ChicagoManual use commas between elements of a citation in a note, but periods between the same elements in a bibliography?

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@gomanga Hi there and congratulations on the big acquisition! I had talked to Becca and Leanne before about offering my editorial services. I sent Becca an email, but I’m not sure whether it got sent; can you confirm?

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When you're booked through the month of September but still have a wide open August... #freelancelife

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When you’ve wrangled all the reference numbers and fixed each one manually and then you can send the piece back to the client and go to BED amirite 🛌🛌🛌🥱🥱🥱

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@paulwiggins That is a good tweak. Thanks!

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When did spaces on either side of a slash become a thing? AFAIK, this shouldn't be a thing. Tell me #edibuddies am I woefully behind the times or am I right to correct this?