FAQ by Category
- My own email signature - Why and how should I create one?
- PEGboard - Where can I find old issues?
- Passive voice, active voice and author's voice - When should we change it?
- Behaviour or Behaviours - Are both correct?
- Place of publication - Where can I find it?
- Titles - How should I capitalise them?
- Blog posts and other ephemeral material - When can they be in a reference list?
- Proofreading and InDesign - What is the process?
- AI-generated text - What should an academic editor do about it?
- TIFF or EPS - What's the difference?
- Decision-making - When do we hyphenate compound nouns?
- Publication Certificate - What must it include?
- Membership renewal - How do I do it?
- Inclusive language - What dictionaries and guides can I use?
- Clients - How do we get them to pay?
- Pharos Online dictionaries - How do they work?
- CPD - Is it worthwhile?
- Flat rate or royalties - How does a writer decide?
- Footnote numbering - How do I update it?
- English-Afrikaans translation resources - What are they?
- Imperial to metric and vv - How does Word's Autocorrect do it?
- Applying for a job - How do I use PEG's Job submission directory?
- Events calendar – How do I get it into my Outlook calendar?
- PEG's constitution - Where can I find it?
- EFA courses - How do I get the discount for PEG members?
- Cadman Training Courses - How do I get the PEG discount?
- 'That' - When is it unnecessary?
- Long/unstable/corrupted Word doc - How can I fix it?
- Competence vs competency - What is the difference?
- But - When do you need a comma before it?Â
- Field names - How do I format them in instructions?
- Punctuating dialogue - "How do I do it?" she asked.
- Line breaks in DOIs and URLs – How do I add them?
- Two-page view - Which programs can I use?
- Hide white space/headers & footers - How do I do it?
- Table of Contents - How do I use outline levels?
- DOIs and URLs - What is the difference?
- Referencing styles - What are they?
- Bibliography or reference list - What is the difference?
- A live bibliography - What is it and should editors make one?
- Rates for projects - How do I calculate a quote?
- Accurate, exact, precise - What is the difference?
- Finding information - How do I search the PEG website?
- PEG membership - How do I prove it to my clients?
- Lists of tables and figures - How do I exclude the label and number?
- Track Changes - How do I make them anonymous?
- Graphs - How should they be used in scientific documents?
- Sanction, one word with two opposite meanings - What is it called?
- Emojis/emoticons - How do I insert them?
- Country names and government publications - How do I reference them?
- Redundancy and tautology - What is the difference?
- What is PEG's financial year?
- Fractions - How can I make them look consistent?
- Kinds/types/sorts/varieties/etc - Plus singular or plural?
- ChatGPT - How do I cite it?
- PerfectIt - How do MAC users get the PEG discount?
- PEG's Directory of Services - How do I get an entry?
- Femininity vs femaleness
- JPG or PNG – When do I use them?
- Language, UK or US - How can I set it permanently?
- Gerunds - Is it 'his' deciding' or 'him' deciding?
- My member number - Where can I find it?
- Past PEGblogs - How can I find them?
- Compare citations and reference list - How?
- Naming birds, animals and plants - What is correct?
- Job titles - Should they be capitalised?
- CPD - What’s the difference between CPD hours for regional and national events?
- CPD - When is the Accreditation Test?
- CPD - Must every PEG member take the accreditation test?
- CPD - How many hours can I claim for webinar participation?
- CPD - Does PEG keep track of member CPD hours?
- Substantive editing vs copy-editing - What is the difference?
- Editor–client communication - What should it include?
- Surnames - Mr Le Roux or Mr le Roux
- Legal documents: Where can I find templates and advice?
- Hyphens, en dashes, em dashes and minuses - When do you use which?
- Book publishing - What are the alternatives?
- I am new to editing - What should I know?
- Latin abbreviations - Should I use italics?
- Findings and results: What is the difference?
- Spelling - Health care, health-care or healthcare?
- Colons - Capital or lower case afterwards?
- Abbreviations - What should I know about them?
- Developmental editing - What is it?
- Collective nouns - Singular or plural?
- Noun-verb agreement - What are the rules?
- PEG full membership - How do I apply?
- Scientific formulae - What are the styles?
- Diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) - What does PEG think?
- Worldbuilding - What is it and what does it mean for editors?
- PEG's 30th Anniversary Conference 2023 - What was it about?
- THE definite article – Do I use it before the names of departments and countries?
- Codes and ethics - What does PEG say?
- Style guides and style sheets - What is the difference?Â
- Egroups - What are the PEG egroups and how can I join them?
- PerfectIt - What is it and why should editors use it?
- Rates - How much should I charge?
- Accreditation - What does it mean for PEG members?
- PEG Signatures - When and how are they available?
- Computer software – Which version of Microsoft Office should I buy?
- Computer hardware - What does an editor need?
- Figures of speech - illustrated
- Parts of speech - illustrated
- Table of contents - How do I make a paragraph appear like a heading in the TOC?
- Table of contents - How do I stop a heading appearing?
- PEG membership - What kind of editor do I need?
- Accredited editors – What are they and why should I use one?
- Active and passive voice – What are they and when do I use them?
- Anonymity - How do I stop my name showing when I am editing?
- Articles – What are they in English and how do I use them?
- As and because – What is the difference?
- As well as – Does it mean the same as 'and'?
- Figure and table captions - What are the conventions?
- Commas after introductory phrases – Are they necessary?
- Commas with conjunctions - When should I use them?
- Compound nouns - What are they and do I pluralise them?
- Consistent terminology – Should I use different words for variety?
- Language editors - What are they and what do they do?
- Order in lists – How and why should I order lists?
- Oxford Dictionaries - How do I log in?
- Parallel lists – What are they?
- PDF conversion software - What should I know?
- PEG membership – What kind of member can I be?
- PEG registration - What is the process?
- Proofreading or copy-editing – What is the difference?
- Secondary/indirect sources - How should I cite them?
- Serial commas – What are they and when do I use them?
- Singular they/themself – Do I have to use them?
- Space before or after the degree sign ° – Should there be one?
- Space before the percent sign % – Should there be one?
- Structural editing and copy-editing - What is the difference?
- Study subjects like 'mathematics' - Should they be capitalised?
- That and which – When should there be a comma?
- Thousands – When must I use a space or a comma?
- Time – How long does editing take?
- Tracked changes – What are they and how do I use them?
- Turn nouns into verbs – Why and how?
- Wordiness - What is it and how can I avoid it?
