Events
- Editing for accessibility – user-friendly tools, useful tips (a repeat of the PEG 30th Anniversary Conference presentation)
- The Digital Age: Make or break for professional relationships? (a repeat of a PEG 30th anniversary conference presentation)
- Free webinar: The new ISO Standard for Plain Language
- PEG orientation session
- Seeing the meaning for the words: Plain English principles in formal texts
- Business data for self-employed business professionals
- Digital nomadism 101
- Better business branding
- Getting to grips with Paul Beverley’s macros for Word to increase your productivity
- Formatting Word documents Part 2
- Formatting Word documents Part 1
- Redigering aan die hand van Renkema se CCC-model – teorie en praktyk
- Editing for accessibility: User-friendly tools, useful tips
PEGblog Categories
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- Freelancing Tips
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- Marketing Your Editing Business
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PEGblog by Category
- Book Reviews
- Book review: Improve your editor website. A comprehensive guide
- The comma
- 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
- Technology for Editors – made nice and simple: Part 2
- The ‘P’ in ‘PEG’
- Book review: Improve your editor website. A comprehensive guide
- 7 tips to avoid isolation when editing from home
- Rates – How much should I charge?
- The author’s voice
- 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
- Technology for Editors – made nice and simple: Part 2
- Editing for conscious and inclusive language
- COLLECTIVE NOUNS: To ess or not to ess?
- NOUN-VERB AGREEMENT – What are the rules?
- Book review: Improve your editor website. A comprehensive guide
- Technology for editors – made nice and simple 1: The basics
- Formatting before editing 2: Headings
- Sentence structure
- PEG on Plain: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- ChatGPT for editors – friend or foe?*
- Formatting before Editing 1: Introduction
- 7 tips to avoid isolation when editing from home
- It’s all write to be wrong
- Honouring Hester von Wielligh
- My take on certain aspects of academic editing
- The comma
- CODES AND ETHICS – What does PEG say?
- PEG publications: From the postman on foot to the portal online
- PerfectIt – What is it and why should editors use it?
- Rates – How much should I charge?
- The author’s voice
- Computer Software – What version of Microsoft Office should I buy?
- Computer Hardware – What does an editor need?
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 3)
- Figures of Speech – illustrated
- PARTS OF SPEECH – Illustrated
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 2)
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 1)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 2)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 1)
- Gender-neutral language causes us to think differently
- Types of editing and their roles in the quality of your manuscript
- Why a style guide?
- Trade books: The role of editors and proofreaders
- Developmental editing of a memoir
- What is grammar?
- The intricacies of editing academic texts for examination purposes
- International Mother Language Day
- When to use a hyphen
- Professional editors adhere to an ethical code
- Why should a thesis be edited?
- Professionalism means fair remuneration for expert services
- The heart of New Hart’s Rules
- Professionalism is rooted in skill and knowledge
- How to use colons and semicolons
- Editing Tools and Software
- Grammar Guidelines
- COLLECTIVE NOUNS: To ess or not to ess?
- NOUN-VERB AGREEMENT – What are the rules?
- The comma
- Figures of Speech – illustrated
- PARTS OF SPEECH – Illustrated
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 2)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 1)
- What is grammar?
- When to use a hyphen
- How to use colons and semicolons
- Language
- Sentence structure
- PEG on Plain: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- It’s all write to be wrong
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 3)
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 2)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 2)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 1)
- Gender-neutral language causes us to think differently
- International Mother Language Day
- Plain Language
- Editing Specialisations
- Ethics
- FAQs
- Abbreviations – What should I know about them?
- Developmental Editing – What is it?
- COLLECTIVE NOUNS: To ess or not to ess?
- NOUN-VERB AGREEMENT – What are the rules?
- PEG Full Membership – How do I apply?
- Scientific formulae – What are the styles?
- DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY: 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?
- 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?
- Continued Professional Development (CPD) – What does it mean for PEG members?
- PEG Signatures – When and how are they available?
- Computer Software – What 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?
- 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 could I be?
- PEG REGISTRATION – What is the process?
- PROOFREADING OR COPY-EDITING – What is the difference?
- SECONDARY SOURCES – How should I do cite indirect sources?
- SERIAL COMMAS – What are they and when do I use them?
- SINGULAR “THEY” – Do I have to use it?
- 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?
- FAQs for Non Members
- COLLECTIVE NOUNS: To ess or not to ess?
- NOUN-VERB AGREEMENT – What are the rules?
- DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVITY: What does PEG think?
- PEG’s 30th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 2023 – What was it about?
- THE Definite Article – Do I use it before the names of departments and countries?
- STYLE GUIDES AND STYLE SHEETS – What is the difference?
- PerfectIt – What is it and why should editors use it?
- PARTS OF SPEECH – Illustrated
- 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?
- 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?
- COMMAS AFTER INTRODUCTORY PHRASES – Are they necessary?
- 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?
- PARALLEL LISTS – What are they?
- PEG MEMBERSHIP – What kind of member could I be?
- PEG REGISTRATION – What is the process?
- PROOFREADING OR COPY-EDITING – What is the difference?
- SECONDARY SOURCES – How should I do cite indirect sources?
- SERIAL COMMAS – What are they and when do I use them?
- SINGULAR “THEY” – Do I have to use it?
- 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?
- Freelancing Tips
- Marketing Your Editing Business
- Member News
- PEG
- PEG’s 30th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 2023 – What was it about?
- PEG on Plain: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- Honouring Hester von Wielligh
- CODES AND ETHICS – What does PEG say?
- PEG publications: From the postman on foot to the portal online
- Continued Professional Development (CPD) – What does it mean for PEG members?
- Carrie Milton
- Alison Downie
- Anneke Brand
- Alexis Grewan
- International Mother Language Day
- Feedback: PEG’s Editing Fiction webinar
- The heart of New Hart’s Rules
- History
- Presenter Bio
- PEGblog
- Technology for Editors – made nice and simple: Part 2
- Editing for conscious and inclusive language
- The ‘P’ in ‘PEG’
- Book review: Improve your editor website. A comprehensive guide
- Technology for editors – made nice and simple 1: The basics
- Formatting before editing 2: Headings
- Sentence structure
- PEG on Plain: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- ChatGPT for editors – friend or foe?*
- Formatting before Editing 1: Introduction
- 7 tips to avoid isolation when editing from home
- It’s all write to be wrong
- Honouring Hester von Wielligh
- My take on certain aspects of academic editing
- The comma
- PEG publications: From the postman on foot to the portal online
- The author’s voice
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 3)
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 2)
- Plain Language in academic writing (part 1)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 2)
- Essential resources for language practitioners (part 1)
- 6 tips for your first editing gigs
- Gender-neutral language causes us to think differently
- 3 ways to reduce the risk of non-payment
- How to find your files
- The don’ts of academic editing
- The advantages and benefits of PEG’s accreditation offerings
- Types of editing and their roles in the quality of your manuscript
- Why a style guide?
- Trade books: The role of editors and proofreaders
- Social media marketing for editors
- Optimising your LinkedIn profile
- Social media marketing: So many questions
- Social media marketing: Consider the data
- Developmental editing of a memoir
- How to write a fiction book review
- The cost of editing
- What is grammar?
- A snapshot of the social media landscape in South Africa
- The intricacies of editing academic texts for examination purposes
- International Mother Language Day
- Understanding marketing and social media marketing
- Feedback: PEG’s Editing Fiction webinar
- When to use a hyphen
- 10 tips for better blog writing
- Professional editors adhere to an ethical code
- Why should a thesis be edited?
- Professionalism means fair remuneration for expert services
- The heart of New Hart’s Rules
- Professionalism is rooted in skill and knowledge
- How to use colons and semicolons
- What does it mean to be a professional editor?
- Welcome to PEGblog!
- Professional development
- Editing for conscious and inclusive language
- The ‘P’ in ‘PEG’
- Technology for editors – made nice and simple 1: The basics
- Formatting before editing 2: Headings
- Formatting before Editing 1: Introduction
- Accreditation – What does it mean for PEG members?
- Continued Professional Development (CPD) – What does it mean for PEG members?
- The advantages and benefits of PEG’s accreditation offerings
- Feedback: PEG’s Editing Fiction webinar
- Accreditation
- CPD
- Training
- Writing