What are the best books I can buy to learn how to become a proficient newspaper copy editor?
posted on Jun 20, 2007 - 12 answers

WannabeEditorFilter: I hated my first year of grad school, with its accompanying anxiety attacks, no free time, surly students, and pages of really boring reading. I'm halfway through my Master's and I am dreading going back. [more inside]
posted on Feb 12, 2007 - 12 answers

Very straightforward: would a testy copyeditor say "take out our grammar frustrations" or "take out our grammatical frustrations" and why?
posted on Oct 21, 2006 - 17 answers

Freelance copy editing: what's the going rate, and how much should I charge? [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2006 - 12 answers

My girlfriend's applied to editorial positions, and is uncertain what to expect on editing tests. She's taken some professional editing classes (using the CMS, which the positions will also use), so the concern isn't at the level of how to edit. Any tips or insight into what such tests generally consist of would be appreciated.
posted on May 18, 2005 - 12 answers

Friends who write books: My question is simple. If a friend has had a book published (not their first by any means) by a well-known publisher and one notices several typos in the text, is it best not to mention them? Or is it polite to commiserate with said friend over the lack of thoroughness on the part of the publisher? I don't want to be rude, but I want to show that I really have read the book.
posted on Dec 10, 2004 - 16 answers