When the American Copy Editors Society meets in Philadelphia this week for its annual conference, survival skills will be high on the agenda. Not too terribly long ago, the copy editing role was ...

The year was 1997. ACES: The Society for Editing — formerly known as the American Copy Editors Society — was founded as a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in copy editing.

In this capstone course you will demonstrate the knowledge and skills you have acquired while completing the Editing Certificate. You will perform a structural edit, stylistic edit, copy edit, and ...

The Role: Copy editors are tasked with fixing grammar, spelling or word usage errors in written text. Copy editors typically occupy one link in an editing chain that includes substantive editing, ...

Creating web content is different than the materials we develop for print. In today's digital world, we communicate to multiple audiences using a variety of screens that pull information from the web.

Most professional in-house or freelance copy editors have had some formal schooling in copy editing. It is a learned skill to a point, but, as far as I’m concerned, you must have an affinity for words ...

Reading in Thursday’s post that few journalism programs offer much training in editing, Sean Smyth asked, “What is the best training to be an editor?” There are things you can do to prepare yourself ...

Every now and then, people ask me whether I actually enjoy my job. They point out that I spend hours at The Michigan Daily every week making others look better and ask me if, deep down, I’d rather ...