Editors working with writers of color, nonwhite writers, or simply writers hailing from a different cultural background and experience from their own have for too long dictated editorial changes that have silenced the voice of the writers. Respectful Querying with NUANCE presents a blueprint for editors that allows editors to continue to offer the guidance necessary to polish a manuscript, and also helps the editor respect the authorial voice and ensure that the final decisions regarding the manuscript lie with the author.Each letter in NUANCE is a reminder of what the editor should keep in mind: N - Notice; U - Underscore; A - Accept; N - Narrow; C - Consult; E - Empower.Editors should be able to use the framework to construct thoughtful queries that allow the editor to assist rather than obstruct. Over time, editing and querying with NUANCE will sharpen an editor's thought processes and become a useful tool for working on fiction and nonfiction manuscripts.When it comes to comma usage or incorrect tenses, a good editor will notice when something is off. For the mechanics and grammar of Standard American English, a good editor has got it covered. A more experienced editor may see some rules being broken and decide that it is okay because it makes sense for the context. This predictability of what to expect with language is largely a result of what an editor was taught as an editor, a writer, or a reader.Any editor should ask themselves questions when editing something that is outside of their cultural experiences or just requires knowledge that the editor may not have. They have to be able to identify why something doesn't make sense or seems wrong to them. Without pre-programmed knowledge or specific backgrounds and expertise-an editor may not know what is truly going on in the context and accepting this is crucial to working with diverse writers. Getting clear on what they think needs addressing is the first step toward being able to offer guidance to the author. Then it's time to prepare a query to the author. This book guides this entire process.The six steps described in this guide for editorial professionals explain to an editor for hire their responsibility to N - Notice; U - Underscore; A - Accept; N - Narrow; C - Consult; E - Empower. Then the editor is instructed to take an action (a reminder of what the editor should be considering), and to take an approach for that action that is tactful and professional.

Respectful Querying with NUANCE

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilkins, Ebonye Gussine

Social Sciences

Editorial Freelancers Association Publications

This booklet describes the difference between the content and style of a traditional resum and the functional resum , which the authors recommend for freelancers seeking work. A skills-based resum is a more effective strategy for freelance editorial professionals because potential clients can identify at a glance whether the freelancer has the skills required for the job.For serious freelancers committed to self-employment in the communications and publishing industries, the traditional resum is fundamentally flawed. It doesn't accommodate the variety of projects an experienced editorial professional may have worked on as a freelancer. If their last full-time job was years ago, the reverse chronological approach makes it look like they've been unemployed since then. More importantly, a traditional resum doesn't tell a potential client whether the freelancer can do the job.Managing editors looking for proofreaders, for instance, don't really care about previous job titles or where an applicant went to college. They want to know that they'll do a good, fast, accurate job on schedule and on budget-in other words, that they'll be a reliable professional.One of the best ways to present oneself as a freelance editorial professional worth hiring is with a functional resum . This type of resum focuses on a freelancer's skills, abilities, and accomplishments, though it may mention previous job experience and educational attainments.For a self-employed editorial professional who wants to get freelance work, a functional resum extracts valuable skills hidden in the traditional resum and highlights them to emphasize writing and editorial skills for specific clients.To create a solid functional resum , rethink the old chronological resum . Look at the skills used in all prior jobs, including those outside publishing. Skills developed through volunteer work also count.The authors have provided four sets of before/after resum s to assist the reader's understanding of the differences between the two and to envision how the functional resum might work for them as they pursue self-employment or work on marketing their small business. In addition to explaining the benefits of the functional resum , this booklet discusses elements of resum design that take into account artificial intelligence screening as well as human foibles that might affect a job offer.The authors also describe ways to supplement your resum , leverage LinkedIn effectively, target your job search, build your network, and protect yourself against scammers.

Resumés for Freelancers: Make Your Résumé an Effective Marketing Tool . . . and More!

Business & Money

Buff, Sheila

Thaler-Carter, Ruth E

Job Hunting & Careers

Assuming you already know how to edit, you can edit in Word 2010 if you know how to get at the files and make changes in them-beyond opening a file, typing and deleting text, and saving, the absolute skill requirement is essentially zero. If you use it for what it is-editing on screen becomes easier (and faster) than editing on paper, and neither less accurate nor harder on your body. The biggest difference between paper editing and on-screen editing is that a straight line is no longer the shortest distance between two points. That is, the steps in the edit are different, and there are more of them, and tasks may happen in a different order from what would work best on paper, but the final effect is that high-quality, medium-level commercial editing-giving a publisher two full read-throughs with substantive overtones and addressing thoughtful queries to the author-can be done at a net rate (considering all the pages and all the time spent on the job) that should come in anywhere between half again and three times as fast as what you can do on paper. Chapter 1. The Shortest Distance: A Concrete Example: Here I detour to the world of travel to provide a detailed example of the way the mind-set of using your computer differs from that of making paper procedures work on screen. This mind-set is what allows me to claim such astonishing speed boosts for real electronic editing. Chapter 2. Building a Working Environment: What you see on the basic Word 2010 screen (or could see with a few mouse clicks), how it serves you, and what to do if you don't like it. Chapter 3. Finding Work for Word's Idle Hands: Where Word 2010 hides the settings that make it second-guess what you're doing, how to fix them, and how to use the basic services the program offers, including AutoCorrect, Find and Replace, and the spelling checker. Chapter 4. Deploying the Custom Features: Where to get hold of the things Word 2010 is built to do but won't volunteer, like keeping track of vocabulary you don't want to use even though it's properly spelled, rearranging the keyboard and ribbon, storing text for quick reuse, and accepting your spoken commands. Chapter 5. Macros and Templates: Digging into the guts of making Word 2010 do your thing instead of its own-with exercises you can use to get up to speed. Chapter 6. Domesticating Tracked Changes: How to use the built-in tracking feature smoothly and comfortably, and how to keep its markup simple enough to avoid frightening your authors. Chapter 7. Coping with Snares and Pitfalls: Where Word's bodies are buried, and how to keep them from rising from their graves and haunting your work. Chapter 8. Locating Useful Additions: Sources of tools, books, and ongoing advice about Word 2010. Chapter 9. A Bouquet of Sample Shortcuts: Some macros-mostly easy and easily understood-to start your collection and give you resources to cannibalize for your first adventures in command development. Chapter 10. Walking Through a Job: The steps involved in a fairly generic nonfiction edit, with notes on ways I use Word 2010 to help in the process

Making Word 2010 Work for You: An Editor's Intro to the Tool of the Trade (Efa Booklets)

Computers & Technology

Hilary Powers

Software

If you want freedom, flexibility to express personal style, more time for your family, interests and hobbies, more variety and more control; and, you have self-discipline, a strong work ethic, good interpersonal skills, appropriate assertiveness, situational awareness, and don't mind working home alone, you may be ready to launch your business as an editorial freelancer. Being an editorial freelancer takes a variety of professional abilities, personal attributes, and business skills. You will find the essentials for developing all of these in this booklet; as well as, definitions of the types of editorial freelancing, lists of skills, tools, resources, and pros and cons of freelancing. This booklet answers the most common questions asked by editors considering the freelance life: How to get started, how to find clients and assignments, how to get paid and how much to charge. Sharing practical skills, such as what language to include in service agreements and how to send invoices and collect payments. This new revision for 2020 is updated to reflect the newest ways to manage your business using SaaS tools, and also how to find work and market your business using social media and freelancing websites.

Freelancing 101: Launching Your Editorial Business

Thaler-Carter, Ruth

Copyright can often be a perplexing topic, but not understanding it well can land you in legal hot water. Copyright and Permissions: What Every Writer and Editor Should Know gives you the practical knowledge you need - what copyright is, how it works, its role in the digital landscape - and walks you through the permissions process, offering useful samples and step-by-step advice for finding work as a permissions editor.While debunking common misconceptions about copyright, author Elsa Peterson lucidly explains how copyright is established, how long it lasts, and what type of material is eligible. You'll learn the meaning and scope of public domain and ways to navigate the murky parameters of fair use.You'll also grasp how the concept of copyright has shifted in the age of digital communication and the ramifications of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other legislation that addressed the novel issues created by evolving technologies. Email, texting, social media, and other avenues of online sharing have made it more difficult to control copyright infringement. This book provides concrete examples of the scenarios editors may confront when they seek permission to use material from these sources, as well as from digital collaboration projects and open-access initiatives like Creative Commons.Along with a solid grounding in copyright principles, you'll get a detailed introduction to the permissions editing process and learn how to: <ul><li>Examine a manuscript to identify all the material that requires permission</li><li>Create and use a permissions database or log</li><li>Contact a copyright holder and submit a permission request letter</li><li>Prepare acknowledgments and negotiate fees</li></ul>And you'll discover the types of organizations that hire freelance permissions editors and strategies for getting your foot in the door.A successful permissions editor needs to be equal parts detective, negotiator, and diplomat. This book shows you how to fill those roles with tact and confidence, so you can expand your repertoire and grow your freelance editing business

Copyright and Permissions: What Every Writer and Editor Should Know

Reference

Peterson, Elsa

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

What does storytelling-narrative-have to do with reporting-nonfiction? Everything.In 1965, Capote published In Cold Blood, an account of a series of ghastly murders in the late '50s. His book became a bestseller, marked by factual accuracy shared through the transporting power of fictional prose. He called it a "nonfiction novel," and some have called it a literary experiment that "opened the way for a new kind of literature." See it as a writer's version of crosspollination, maybe even a certain literary alchemy.Before In Cold Blood, America's interest in nonfiction and journalism had already begun to grow. The breakneck speed of reporting captured readers' attention. With it came a writing technique that treated the reader more like a receptacle for information and headlines rather than someone to compel and entice with words and sentences from the first word to the final period. The Inverted Pyramid, the journalist's map for writing, ensured that a report's first paragraphs contained all the information readers would need, like a shirt in an overstuffed suitcase. This guaranteed readers' access to anything useful if the bottom paragraph had to be cut.Storytelling offers great resources for accomplishing most of the goals of nonfiction writing. In fact, most of the marketing, selling, persuading, and entertaining goals attached to today's writing finds its lineage in the bloodline of storytelling; namely, what prompts readers' curiosity, compels them to continue reading, and satisfies their needs as readers. If you're writing leadership articles or recipe blogs or online-marketing copy, how can you use storytelling to your advantage? In Tell Them a Story: Using the Best Lessons from Narrative Nonfiction in Your Everyday Writing, Ben Riggs breaks down the differences between a report and a story, asks the reader to examine the different purposes of "efferent" writing and "aesthetic" writing, and to consider the benefits of joining the two to meet the needs of an audience. In an examination of the importance of theme, Riggs teaches that by situating your piece of writing on the back of a theme you can inject deeper meaning into even the most prosaic and pragmatic of nonfiction pieces. Writers still need to know how to distill real life accurately into words. Nonfiction. To accomplish all of these strategies, writers still need to write to entice, entertain, and compel readers. Narrative. Even for genres that don't seem inherently "story-friendly," you can make many writing decisions that bring any reader to think, "What happens next?" Ideally, writing this way doesn't occur at the expense of the clarity and factual nature of nonfiction writing and its many forms. This booklet contains tools and strategies to help you write nonfiction in a way that helps your readers - whoever they are - ask those three words, even if they don't know they're asking them. If you make certain writing decisions, they will find themselves traveling from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, having forgotten where they were before they started reading because they've been transported elsewhere.

Tell Them a Story: Using Narrative Nonfiction in Your Everyday Writing

Riggs, Ben

For editors of content for print, digital, and the internet, this booklet teaches six steps to easily customize a style guide for published content. 
A publishing house, journalism outlet, corporation, sole proprietor, or the like, wanting to assure consistency in their brand and writerly voice, maintains a house style guide reflecting their official grammatical, mechanical, usage, and design preferences for the writing they produce. A consistent house style is a kind of contract with the reader, designed with them in mind. There are a handful of common style guides designed to suit the fields in which they are used. 
The author of this booklet, Robin Martin, has eleven years' experience customizing style guides as a freelancer and as the managing editor of a literary magazine. One of her projects was as a volunteer at the EFA, collaborating with other stakeholders to generate a house style for the organization. She has taught MLA, AP, and CMOS styles to students, and worked with each of these style guides online as well as in print. 
Rules of grammar and usage may be prescriptive or descriptive, and there are differences among reference books, dictionaries, and other respectable sources. The intention of this booklet is not to elevate one over another or to suggest an open disregard to established guides, rather it is to recommend approaching style with an open mind. The author presumes not only the freedom to customize, but the obligation to customize with the needs of the rhetorical situation at the forefront. 
A handful of core best practices carry over from one project to the next and make customization of style guides quite simple. This booklet for copyeditors sets out and delves into six steps to easily customize a style guide for a client's content. Step one is establishing the rhetorical situation, step two is identifying and mapping patterns, step three is querying the author of the work, step four is structuring and formatting the guide, step five is applying the style to the work, step six is adjusting and refining the style guide. 
A style guide should be seen as a living, breathing, document that ensures intention and consistency throughout the entirety of a client's content.

6 Easy Steps to Customize a Style Guide: What's Your Style? (Efa Booklets)

Robin, Martin

Skills

Many freelancers have built successful, well-paying careers using freelance platforms; others have kick-started or augmented careers. Before jumping in, you must determine: Are you comfortable with the business model? Can you work within their rules? Can you live with their fees? The information in this booklet will help guide your research. 
Using Freelance Platforms Safely and Effectively by Wes Cowley is a 46-page booklet written by an editorial freelance professional who has successfully navigated and found work on freelance job sites. It contains an overview of this job-search model and focuses on five companies that represent the different types of freelance work sites on the web: Fiverr, Freelancer.com, Guru, PeoplePerHour, Reedsy, and Upwork. Cowley covers terms, types of platforms, and the pros and cons of each. 
He provides not simply answers, which might be accurate today and obsolete tomorrow, but questions for professionals to ask and red-flags to look for before creating a profile and signing up with one of these companies to find freelance work. The booklet includes: understanding how a platform works, what kind of communication is allowed with a client, what exclusivity rules exist, how to bid on a job, what types of pricing models are supported, what the fee structures look like, how you get a contract, how you get paid, how freelancer ratings work, and how to manage a dispute. 
Additionally, Using Freelance Platforms Safely and Effectively discusses how to establish and manage your reputation on the sites, how to set rates, how to vet clients and their material. 
Finally, the booklet contains a list of some of the most common scams perpetrated against freelancers and how to avoid them.

Using Freelance Platforms Safely and Effectively

Wes Cowley

Design awareness is increasingly important in the quick-publishing models embraced by web publishers and rapid-release book publishers. Freelance editors become more valuable to publishing production process when, in addition to knowing written rhetoric, they understand the basic grammar of document design. This booklet explains the four basic principles of design along with examples of what to do and instances where things go wrong. It also presents how each principle can serve a project's message, purpose, and audienceVisual Grammar: Design Foundations for Editors explains the four basic principles of design along with examples of what to do and instances where things go wrong. It also presents how each principle can serve a project's message, purpose, and audience. The booklet includes 20 images illustrating the concepts of size, vertical and horizontal alignment, curve alignment, fonts and font alignment, eyeline and eyesight, proximity unity and exclusion, and other graphic design fundamentals. The author presents the basics of graphic design, not just for book design but other graphic design skills for editors, including: How to design a lead magnet, how good page layout design assures a message is delivered the way it is intended.Each of the foundational principles of graphic design-contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity, and hierarchy-are rhetorical tools editors need to help organize, emphasize, and clarify texts in ways that are appropriate for a finalized, ready-to-publish work. An additional understanding of how to choose appropriate typefaces and how to typeset pages for optimal readability puts budding designers in a great position to create elegant and effective reader-ready documents.

Visual Grammar: Design Foundations for Editors

Arts & Photography

Gilbert, Kristy

Graphic Design

Presenting the fundamentals of manga editing and how to work with translated text in the context of a visual medium, including steps within manga workflows, common manga standards, advice about seeking manga jobs, manga-specific concepts and terminology, style guidelines that differ from prose and Chicago style, and visual aspects of manga that need to be taken into account along with the tex¬tual elements.With 20 figures and two detailed translation tables, a huge amount of information is packed into this small booklet. Author Jan Mitsuko Cash is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association and a translator of Japanese fiction who has helped bring over a hundred volumes of Japanese novels and manga into English and has assisted others with starting their careers in the localization industry.

Editing Manga: Working with translations in a visual medium

Mitsuko Cash, Jan

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