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Thanks, Charlie Brown.

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An editor: Is good at puzzles, at seeing the flecks of green in several scattered puzzle pieces and understanding that they fit together to form the green hillside at the top of the story/painting, not the puddle of green algae at the bottom. Is thoughtful and analytical; good at spotting holes in arguments and seeing through well-written hand-waving. A voracious reader.

http://www.theopennotebook.com/2013/01/16/are-you-an-editor-or-a-writer-part-ii-the-editors/

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#writers

#copy editing #style guide

#headlines #copy editors #web #Internet

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Words to use more carefully in 2013, including engagement, multimedia, entrepreneurial and hyperlocal

SPJ: http://twitter.com/spj_tweets/status/288672806856712192

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NEW YORK—Law enforcement officials confirmed Friday that four more copy editors were killed this week amid ongoing violence between two rival gangs divided by their loyalties to the The Associated Press Stylebook and The Chicago Manual Of Style.

#copy editors #AP Style #Chicago Manual of Style #The Onion

While other girls were out with boyfriends on Sunday afternoons, getting their necks disfigured by love bites, I was at home with the wireless listening to an Ian Messiter quiz called Many a Slip, in which erudite and amusing contestants spotted grammatical errors in pieces of prose.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. (Books about punctuation can be fun!)

#copy editors #grammar

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