Sporadic musings of an editor addicted to orderly working
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...
I had never thought of this as a year-end post. In fact, I'd prepared this as a draft by the end of October. But somehow things happened in such a way that I could fine-tune it as a blog only now—perhaps it was destined to be only a year-end post!
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This is a basic exposition of a new method of teaching the English language, evolved over a period of at least 25 years. So there’s a personal story behind this, which I’m presenting first (Part 1), to give you the gist of it. But then, there’s also the technical side to it, which is what makes this...