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Living with AI

Living with AI

May 21, 2025 | Academic editing, Academic writing, Editing and proofreading, Editing tools and software, PEGblog

A future with machines Should we be concerned about a future alongside AI? Does the future hold productivity gains or mass employment? We are only just starting to see how this new technology will affect our particular line of work. As an academic editor, it is...

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Text linguistics (and its role in text quality)

Text linguistics (and its role in text quality)

Jul 2, 2024 | Editing and proofreading, Grammar guidelines, PEGblog, Writing

When I read Annamarie Mostert’s blog,  I was keen to understand more about the CCC model (correspondence, consistency, correctness) and how I could use it in my work as a copy editor. After reading more in one of my resources (listed below and in Annamarie’s blog), I...

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How to write a PEGblog in 5 simple steps

How to write a PEGblog in 5 simple steps

Jun 19, 2024 | Marketing your editing business, PEGblog, Writing

Following a meeting discussing search engine optimisation (SEO) and assisting the copy editor, a team member suggested a blog on how to write a blog. So, here it is, how to write a PEGblog while keeping in mind SEO. We’re hoping this will prompt several copy editors...

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What is this thing called ‘style’?

What is this thing called ‘style’?

Apr 9, 2024 | Editing and proofreading, Language, PEGblog, Writing

I have written this brief piece in response to an enquiry from a respected language practitioner colleague who was asking which of the meanings of ‘skryfwyse’ the English word ‘style’ best conveys, if any at all. My starting point was Bosman, Van der Merwe and...

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It’s all write to be wrong

It’s all write to be wrong

Apr 25, 2023 | Editing and proofreading, Language, PEGblog, Writing

It’s the bravery – the courageous stepping into the unknown – that now delights me. There was a time when pedantry could have been my middle name. When misplaced apostrophes, caps strewn among non-proper-noun words with abandon, misspelling, and incorrect use of words...

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Plain Language in academic writing (part 3)

Plain Language in academic writing (part 3)

Jan 24, 2023 | Academic writing, Editing and proofreading, PEGblog, Plain language

In part 1 and part 2 of this post, I discussed some of the problems of lack of clarity and of verbosity that are common in academic writing and gave two examples of how typical constructions can be greatly improved in clarity and simplicity by applying Plain Language...

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Plain Language in academic writing (part 2)

Plain Language in academic writing (part 2)

Jan 10, 2023 | Academic writing, Editing and proofreading, Language, PEGblog, Plain language

In part 1 of this post, I discussed some of the problems of the lack of clarity and of verbosity that are common in academic writing. What follows are some examples of typical constructions that can be greatly improved in clarity and simplified by applying Plain...

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Plain Language in academic writing (part 1)

Plain Language in academic writing (part 1)

Dec 13, 2022 | Academic editing, Academic writing, Editing and proofreading, PEGblog, Writing

We are all familiar with fusty, complicated, roundabout academic writing – no doubt it filled many of the textbooks you struggled through at school and university; and if you have to read academic texts in your working life, you may dread the task because it is such a...

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Types of editing and their roles in the quality of your manuscript

Types of editing and their roles in the quality of your manuscript

Aug 9, 2022 | Editing and proofreading, PEGblog, Writing

In my previous blog post, we looked into the role of editors and proofreaders in trade books. I pointed out that there is more to editing than just fixing spelling and grammatical errors. There are different types of editing, and each serves a purpose. For first-time...

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Developmental editing of a memoir

Developmental editing of a memoir

May 3, 2022 | Editing and proofreading, PEGblog, Writing

What is a developmental edit? During developmental editing, the editor focuses on the ‘big picture’ of the story and makes recommendations to ensure a winning structure that will keep readers absorbed to the end of the book. This editing step can be done during an...

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