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Events
- LaTeX and Overleaf –  just an introduction! (Part 2)
- LaTeX and Overleaf –  just an introduction! (Part 1)
- From manuscript to masterpiece: Editing, proofreading and indexing (a guide for authors)
- PEG Gauteng: Macros
- Style Guides
- Fact checking for editors
- The sweet and salty of editing cookbooks
- A recipe for copy-editing an academic journal article - Part 2
- A recipe for copy-editing an academic journal article - Part 1
- PEG ATE: Part 3
- PEG ATE: Part 2
- Gauteng Accreditation Preparation (GAP) session
- Gauteng Accreditation Preparation (GAP) session
- Gauteng Accreditation Preparation (GAP) session
- Inside a Developmental Edit (aka How Editors Think Through a Manuscript
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PEGblog by Category
- Book reviews
- Book review: Improve your editor website. A comprehensive guide
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 2)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 1)
- Why a style guide?
- Trade books: The role of editors and proofreaders
- How to write a fiction book review
- The heart of New Hart’s Rules
- Business advice
- Show me the money: Accounting for editors
- Finding work: The real stats
- Organising my freelance business to be tax compliant
- Navigating editorial challenges with emotional intelligence: building strong author-editor relationships
- Technology for editors – made nice and simple: Part 2
- 7 tips to avoid isolation when editing from home
- 6 tips for your first editing gigs
- 3 ways to reduce the risk of non-payment
- How to find your files
- Social media marketing for editors
- Optimising your LinkedIn profile
- Social media marketing: So many questions
- Social media marketing: Consider the data
- The cost of editing
- A snapshot of the social media landscape in South Africa
- Understanding marketing and social media marketing
- 10 tips for better blog writing
- Professional editors adhere to an ethical code
- Professionalism means fair remuneration for expert services
- What does it mean to be a professional editor?
- Professionalism
- Editing and proofreading
- Editing tips and tricks: Take nothing for granted
- Hiding headers and footers and scrolling in two-page view: Do you know how useful these functions are?
- Draft view in Word: Do you know how useful it is?
- Edit or proofread? How to manage your impulses
- The loneliness of the long-distance editor
- How editors can navigate hurt and respond with kindness
- Hell, yes, I’m sensitive!
- How’s your colleague now? Paula de Carvalho
- Even editors’ brains can be sneaky
- Text linguistics (and its role in text quality)
- 4 rules for editors to stay in check and out of trouble
- When editors go the extra mile
- Formatting before editing 3: Figure and table captions
- What is this thing called ‘style’?
- Should a preposition end a sentence?
- Editing as a side hustle: a personal perspective
- Renkema’s CCC model: Why is it useful?
- Renkema se K3-model: Hoekom is dit nuttig?
- How to spot plagiarism
- (Power)Toys for Editors
- Why do we edit?
- Tools you need to be a copy editor
- Editing for conscious and inclusive language
- Technology for editors – made nice and simple 1: The basics
- Formatting before editing 2: Headings
- Sentence structure
- ChatGPT for editors – friend or foe?*
- Formatting before Editing 1: Introduction
- It’s all write to be wrong
- Honouring Hester von Wielligh
- PEG publications: From the postman on foot to the portal online
- The author’s voice
- Types of editing and their roles in the quality of your manuscript
- Developmental editing of a memoir
- When to use a hyphen
- Professionalism is rooted in skill and knowledge
- How to use colons and semicolons
- Advice to authors
- Editing tools and software
- Grammar guidelines
- Language
- Proofreading tips
- Style guides
- Editing specialisations
- Academic editing
- Living with AI
- A tripod: the student, supervisor and language editor
- Academic writing – it’s not for everyone
- Written contracts when editing student work
- Artificial intelligence and academic English language editing
- Science, SI, and Cary, North Carolina
- Copy-editing a compilation or a paper-based thesis/dissertation: knowing and setting our limits
- Plagiarism: rooting it out
- My take on certain aspects of academic editing
- The comma
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 1)
- The don’ts of academic editing
- The intricacies of editing academic texts for examination purposes
- Why should a thesis be edited?
- Fiction editing
- Legal editing
- Science editing
- Technical editing
- Academic editing
- Ethics
- FAQs
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- Freelancing tips
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- Marketing your editing business
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- My editing process
- Affidavits for editors: The basic elements
- The benefits of preparing for and taking the PEG Accreditation Test
- Am I scared of AI?
- Editing lessons from a morning spent weeding
- Be my guest! Editing a guest-edited issue of an accredited academic journal?
- Granny’s storybook journey
- Escape from LinkedIn obscurity
- How I edit poetry
- The long and the short of it: Abbreviations for editors
- Get involved – it’s good for you
- Income tax dilemmas: How to account for income not received
- PEG benefits: Helping me to change gear
- Using the Read Aloud feature in MS Word
- On professionalism, regional community and volunteering: One member’s journey
- Turning the tables: When the editor becomes the edited
- Hip, hope and hustle: Copy-editing life through recovery
- I needed a PEG to hang my hat on
- Falling in love with editing again
- Social media marketing for editors – an update 1
- Overwhelmed to inspired: reflections of a new member
- PEGboard
- Personal Growth and Development
- Professional development
- Referencing
- Uncategorized
- Writing
FAQ by Category
- 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?