Author's posts
Mar 05 2010
Grammar
I do enjoy finding blogs that support my opinions on grammar. Here’s one. Motivated Grammar: Prescriptivism Must Die!
Mar 02 2010
Technical Editing in the 21st Century
Feb 09 2010
Portfolios and skill building
The best way to demonstrate your editorial abilities is to show examples of documents before and after you edited them, but often that’s not an option. The best way to expand your skills is to work in the areas you’re interested in, whether that’s expanding into comprehensive editing from copy-editing or working in different subjects, …
Feb 02 2010
Using “the cloud” for online file storage and syncing
What can “cloud computing” offer to technical editors? Quite a lot, I think. I’ll be writing more about this topic as I get more involved in using different features. At the moment, the main items of interest to me are those related to syncing files between two or more computers, preferably with Web access to …
Jan 28 2010
Sending and receiving files
Like most writers and editors, I often need to receive files from clients and collaborators and send files to them. Usually these files are small to moderate in size (