writing - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:54:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png writing - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 Editing academia: Working with students https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/20/editing-academia-working-with-students/ https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/20/editing-academia-working-with-students/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2015 21:26:56 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2505 I loved academic writing when I was a student, and now I get really excited when I get to work with students as an editor. In the past few months, Talk Science has done formatting, copy-editing and writing coaching for graduate students in sociology, political science and education. The Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) has guidelines for… Read More »Editing academia: Working with students

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]]> https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/07/20/editing-academia-working-with-students/feed/ 1 2505 Resolutions for writers, and why https://www.talksciencetome.com/2015/05/11/resolutions-writers/ Mon, 11 May 2015 20:51:55 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=2545 Apart from sticking to deadlines for timely submission, what other useful habits could/should writers adopt to help workflow? Here are some habits that could help keep the words coming, and why they might help. Inbox zero and muting the ping! File this one under “removing distractions.” How many times an hour does that ping of… Read More »Resolutions for writers, and why

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]]> 2545 International Plain Language Day https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/10/10/international-plain-language-day/ Fri, 10 Oct 2014 21:32:45 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1829 October 13th is International Plain Language Day (IPLDay), a celebration of clear communication and the plain language movement. In Vancouver, we celebrated IPLDay a week early at Communication Convergence, a conference that brought together communicators from different fields for an afternoon of discussion. I’m fairly new to the concept of plain language, and throughout the afternoon I began to reflect… Read More »International Plain Language Day

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]]> 1829 Copyright: Quotes https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/06/11/copyright-quotes/ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:00:46 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1224 My alma mater’s policy on quotation is (loosely paraphrased): “Please for the love of all that is good and pure in the universe, properly attribute all words from external sources so that we don’t need to award you a special mega-F and chisel your academic malfeasance into your headstone.” Point being, at least in my… Read More »Copyright: Quotes

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]]> 1224 Forget zombie nouns–watch out for vampire verbs https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/01/24/forget-zombie-nouns-watch-out-for-vampire-verbs/ Fri, 24 Jan 2014 20:53:18 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1109 I don’t often leave a six-hour seminar with more energy than when I came in, but if it’s six hours of language stuff, I’m pumped. This past Saturday the BC branch of the Editors’ Association of Canada hosted a workshop called Eight Step Editing, delivered by veteran editor and writer Jim Taylor, who developed the… Read More »Forget zombie nouns–watch out for vampire verbs

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