The Art of Copyediting Blog

Sporadic musings of an editor addicted to orderly working

The Art of Copyediting offers nine options for learning

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...

The Art of Copyediting solution to the problem of learning in India

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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,...

The Art of Copyediting training and mentoring program—A look back

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This is a piece written by Dr. Mothi Paul of Tirunelveli, who took up The Art of Copyediting's Foundational Skills for Employability and Earning training and mentoring program recently. I'm publishing it here (along with my blogs) as Dr. Paul does not yet have a website of this...

My take on Strunk and White: A personal story

This blog is my response to an article shared by John McIntyre on Facebook and the comments there. My first instinct was to post my reply there, but I felt that my response was long and rather personal. So I decided to put it up as a blog here on my website and provide a link to it in that...