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Tips and Tricks for Improving Your Localization Editing Skills

By Stephen Hyde

August 5, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Tips and Tricks for Improving Your Localization Editing Skills

Communication across the world is at an all-time high, and it’s as important as ever that we have clear, concise writing to convey ideas. Good editors who localize text quickly and accurately are in demand, and if you want to add another set of skills to your resume, just follow the guidelines below.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: China, Editing, eggs, helpful, idioms, Language, Localization, location, place, region, tips, translation, tricks

Poetic Communication: What it means for writers and editors

By Tiffany Watson

April 12, 2019 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Poetic Communication: What it means for writers and editors

Creating an original voice, going against the grain of convention, has little to do with the spark we are often told about. Rather, it is a conscious effort to know the rules and when to innovate.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: Convention, Editing, innovation, Language, literature, Mark Turner, philosophy, Roland Posner, Spark, Stephen King, writing

Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

By Meagan Nolan

November 28, 2018 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Normalizing Queerness: Tips on Inclusive Editing for the LGBTQ Community

The role of an editor is to ensure throughout each stage of the editing process that the writer communicates their view of the world to the reader in the best way possible. With such a responsibility, editors should look at the ways in which the language and manuscripts they edit affect the world around them. Editors should look at how the representation of life and people on the page shape and change society’s understanding of real people in the real world. To gain further distance on the path towards impartial inclusion, here are some tips for inclusive and mindful editing in regards to the LGBTQ community.

Filed Under: Editing Tagged With: abnormal, asexual, bisexual, communication, community, Editing, editor, female, gay, gender identity, gender-neutral, historical homophobia, impartial, inclusion, intersexual, Language, lesbian, LGBTQ, life, male, manuscript, mindful editing, minority, misrepresentation, misunderstanding, normal, normalize, page, pansexual, people, privilege, queer, questioning, reader, real-world, Relationship, sexual prejudice, society, their, them, they, transgender, world

Manager Monday: Striving Toward Inclusive Language

By Olenka Burgess lennykata

August 22, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Manager Monday: Striving Toward Inclusive Language

This past April, while many of my fellow Ooligan students were at AWP 2016 in Los Angeles, I opted for a conference that was smaller yet just as important: ACES 2016, the twentieth anniversary of the American Copy Editors Society’s annual festival of unabashed grammar geekery and word nerdery, lovingly dubbed “Comma-Con” by some of […]

Filed Under: Manager Monday Tagged With: bias, Conscious Style Guide, Editing, Karen Yin, Kory Stamper, Language, panel, singular they, Style Guide

The Singular “They” is Here to Stay, and You’re Going to Like It

By Chelsea Lobey

August 19, 2016 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

The Singular “They” is Here to Stay, and You’re Going to Like It

The use of the singular “they” is so common in American speech that I find it a little funny that I’m writing about it. And yet, here I am. We say it all the time: “Everyone wants their cat to look cool on Halloween.” You know, as the saying goes. For ages it seemed, written […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: grammar, Language, singular they, writing

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