The Art of Copyediting Blog

Overview

Copyediting training is undoubtedly a long process. Hiring someone and training them and then knowing many months later that the person is not a right fit is one of the most frustrating things for an editorial manager. Finding the right person has always been a difficult task, with no know...

Not many people have a clear sense of purpose in life, which, when present, goads them to learn something every day, every week, every month, every year.

But for most people, learning itself does not happen on its own. It happens only when you consciously take that decision to learn. It happens ...

Summary

A copyeditor in India faces almost insurmountable hurdles in learning the profession. I discuss these problems in detail and provide (a) a practical method of learning the basics via The Art of Copyediting group-learning plan (now affordable by everyone) and (b) an engaging, challenges-base...

Back in the days when I learned copyediting, we worked on hardcopy manuscripts, and the world itself was spinning at a rather much lower pace. We didn’t have any structured training; we were taught some titbits here and there, had some definite do’s and don’ts, some style points for every journal—an...