I remember the first time I received cruel feedback from a client. I’d been freelancing for a few months. Although I could see the client was belittling me because they were confused by the tracked changes, their brutal words hit like a gut punch, leaving me unsure of...
Cripple, dumb, spaz, spastic, midget, crazy, invalid, handicapped, moron, idiot, retarded, deaf-mute, deaf and dumb, stupid, Mongol … these are only some hurtful terms that inconsiderate people use to refer to people with disabilities. Frequently used when...
You can be listed in the Directory of Members’ Services on the Find an expert page: if * you have been a member for at least the last calendar year and * you have paid your subscription for the current year and * submitted proof that you have earned at least 20 CPD...
(The instructions are intended as guidelines and apply to Microsoft® Word for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2403 Build 16.0.17425.20124 64-bit) for Windows 11. Details may differ slightly for other versions.) In my first blog post, I shared my 14-step formatting...
Regional events (whether in-person or online) are equally weighted with national ones. National and regional information-sharing or learning sessions earn formal CPD hours equal to the actual length of the event but committee and administrative meetings earn...
The Accreditation Test is always held in September and members who wish to take it are given a window period of eight or nine days in which to take it. From the time you receive the test script by email, you have precisely 48 hours in which to complete it in your home...
Short answer: No. It is not mandatory, although every member should aspire to passing PEG’s accreditation test: With PEG’s membership levels limited to associate and full members, we feel that individuals should attain the gold standard of professionalism through a...
If you attend a webinar or listen to a recording of it, you earn the number of hours equivalent to the length of the webinar, eg if the webinar takes two hours, they earn two hours. Your certificate of attendance or proof of purchase is proof of your having earned...
Our webinar administrator keeps a record of all members (including ATEs) for whom a certificate is issued. This helps members to calculate their CPD hours garnered during a membership year for a variety of activities and to submit those as proof of having completed...
Then: 2007 We found this in an edition of Pegboard from as far back as 2007. These were deliberations of editors about prepositions at the end of sentences: Do your hackles rise when you spot a preposition at the end of a sentence? What does this little rhyme by...
Renkema’s CCC model facilitates and evaluates the text-editing process in a systematic, standardised and accountable way. This blog briefly describes the origin, composition and usefulness of this model. (The blog was written first in Afrikaans and has been...
Renkema’s K3/CCC-model facilitates and evaluates the text-editing process in a systematic, standardised and accountable way. The first of our blogs written in Afrikaans, this blog briefly describes the origin, composition and usefulness of this model. Renkema se...
If you are a freelance editor or are considering editing in a freelance capacity, this is for you. These 10 tips guide you through different aspects of your work as a freelancer. Before we get to the 10 tips, here are three additional points to consider with two quick...
Debating accreditation: This was the title of a contribution by the PEG newsletter editor at the time, André Snyders, in the edition dated November 2007. How far we have come. And how long it has taken! Sixteen years on, the questions regarding whether or not we need...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...