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Professional development

Editing for conscious and inclusive language

Editing for conscious and inclusive language

Sep 5, 2023 | Editing and Proofreading, Ethics, PEGblog, Professional development

In support of the efforts of Alexis Grewan, our national chairperson, to work towards greater diversity and inclusion in PEG, I offer my thoughts on what this means for PEG and its members and what it requires of all of us as professional language practitioners. PEG...

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The ‘P’ in ‘PEG’

The ‘P’ in ‘PEG’

Aug 22, 2023 | Ethics, PEGblog, Professional development, Professionalism

I recently came across Alexis Grewan’s four-part series, which was posted between November 2021 and January 2022. This post will add my contribution as a follow-on to Alexis’ excellent series. For those who missed her posts, here are the links:...

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Technology for editors – made nice and simple 1: The basics

Technology for editors – made nice and simple 1: The basics

Jul 25, 2023 | Editing and Proofreading, PEGblog, Professional development

In a recent coffee conversation with PEG members, we discussed technology and how it could be used better to help us get our work done more efficiently. A number of questions were raised which prompted me to put together a series of blog posts on this mysterious...

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Formatting before editing 2: Headings

Formatting before editing 2: Headings

Jul 11, 2023 | Editing and Proofreading, PEGblog, Professional development, Training

Formatting makes it much easier for me to work with the document, it looks professional, and it is much easier for the examiners to navigate (Richard Steele, 2023).    In my last blog, I shared my 14-step formatting checklist and how to work through steps 1 to 6: Open...

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Formatting before Editing 1: Introduction

Formatting before Editing 1: Introduction

May 16, 2023 | Editing and Proofreading, PEGblog, Training

Richard Steele said in his recent blog about his take on academic referencing: Formatting “makes it much easier for me to work with the document, it looks professional, and it is much easier for the examiners to navigate … this is a technical issue, not an academic...

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Accreditation – What does it mean for PEG members?

Feb 16, 2023 | Accreditation, FAQs, Professional development

Accreditation enables PEG members to advertise their level of competence to clients, it boosts their self-confidence, and enables them to benchmark themselves against international best practice. PEG has conducts an annual accreditation test for members. We run...

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Continued Professional Development (CPD) – What does it mean for PEG members?

Feb 16, 2023 | CPD, FAQs, PEG, Professional development

It is important – and in their best interests – for members to keep up to date with editing trends. There are always new things to learn in search of excellence. Doing so is especially crucial for those members who have attained ATE status; but it is also necessary...

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The advantages and benefits of PEG’s accreditation offerings

The advantages and benefits of PEG’s accreditation offerings

Aug 23, 2022 | Accreditation, PEGblog, Professional development

One of the many questions on our members’ lips nowadays is ‘Why accreditation?’ This blog attempts to answer this question by highlighting its numerous benefits. Raising professional standards Fundamentally, accreditation aims to raise professional standards of...

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Feedback: PEG’s Editing Fiction webinar

Feedback: PEG’s Editing Fiction webinar

Feb 9, 2022 | PEG, PEGblog, Training

On 11 December 2021, PEG held an online workshop, attended by 30 wordsmiths, on the subject of editing the genre of fiction. It was also the pretext for officially launching PEG's latest guide, Editing fiction, authored by Máire Fisher and Nella Freund, with the...

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