Category Archives: Track Changes Meditations

Meditations from the Track Changes Column.
Reflections on some things learned from working on projects.

Pronoun Perplexity

Posted on March 16, 2016 by Lynn

It’s necessary for authors to be careful and explicit regarding the use of pronouns when more than one person is present in the context of a discussion. The antecedents of pronouns may be perfectly clear in the writer’s mind, but … Continue reading →

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Nosing Around

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Lynn

This article is from the series Meditations from the Track Changes Column In the course of copyediting, I often find it useful to nose around in (aka research) what great authors of the past did. The sorts of points I seek … Continue reading →

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Meditations from the Track Changes Column

Posted on February 19, 2015 by Lynn

In the course of editing the writing of clients, I encounter much in the way of ticks and bad habits, not to mention sheer ignorance, particularly in the writing of beginners and illiterati — of which I edit more than I’d … Continue reading →

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