When it comes to mechanical aspects of writing, few details seem to trip writers up as much as capitalization: when to use uppercase letters, and when to use lowercase letters. Specific job titles preceding a person’s...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Substantive editing focuses on the overall structure, content, and flow of a manuscript. When you engage an editor to perform substantive editing, they will make or suggest changes to the title, language, and style....
Much trouble can be avoided if we editors are mindful of adequate contracting with clients. This starts at the first ‘hello’ and ends with the final ‘thank you’. Take two minutes to remind yourself of the following:...
The use of capitals in surnames consisting of two or more parts is helpfully explained in the Stellenbosch University's US English Style Guide (2024:30), in particular paragraphs 5.2.3 and 5.2.4. You can find the full...
The information below comes from a [PEGforum] Editing legal documents thread on Tue 2024/01/16 10:17. Thank you to the PEG member who answered the question but did not want to be named. Question I need some advice on...
We learned a lot in a [PEGforum] Advice on en and em dash spacing thread that started on February 26, 2024 8:10 AM. This is a compilation of advice from several helpful PEG members. For advice on conventions such as...
Books can be published in five main ways: Traditional publishing: They pay authors an advance. Small presses. They pay no advance and avoid print runs. Assisted and hybrid publishing. Authors pay to publish. Indie or...
Welcome to the Professional Editors' Guild (PEG)! To learn all you need to know about editing, work your way through all the pages in the PEG website. But start with this very useful guide compiled by ACES, one of our...
The useful information below comes from a [PEGforum] et al. thread started on 2023-07-27, and a [PEGforum] Use of italics for Latin abbreviations thread that started on 2023-07-28. Question Please tell me if ‟et al.”...
The term ‘findings’ should be used for qualitative studies and ‘results’ should be used for quantitative studies. For a less dogmatic definition, examples, and more information, see Editage Insights. Published on: Feb...
PEG member, Corné Janse van Rensburg, and the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors prefer one word. The online Oxford Dictionary gives it as one word but allows two words as an alternative. And yet the Oxford...
We use an initial lower case only in two instances after a colon: to separate two parts of a sentence (and there are exceptions) and to introduce a list (except if that list comprises proper nouns). It is far more...
An abbreviation is a short form used to save space in text and make it more readable. There are three other short forms: acronyms, initialisms and contractions. Most institutions like abbreviations to be defined only...
Developmental editing can occur before or during the production of a publishable manuscript. Beforehand, It helps clients choose a topic, plan the structure and develop the outline of their books, either fiction or...
Collective nouns and the nouns they describe can be either singular or plural. Plural collectives describing singular nouns The words in bold italic font below are a curiously troublesome type of collective noun and...