by admin | Sep 26, 2019 | Conference, Making of an author, Punctuation, Workshops
If you are a writer, editor, journalist, or academician, it is likely that you have had encountered the fateful publishing process in your career’s lifetime. Many a time, people ask what it takes to get their work published. The answer is, sadly, never...
by admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Book Reviews, Copyediting, Making of an editor, Punctuation
Punctuation can get tricky especially when it comes to deciphering what the author intends to say and what strokes or dots need to be used to enhance the structure and meaning of a sentence. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss, we discover how even the...
by admin | Oct 23, 2016 | Copyediting, Punctuation
If you are an editor, you know the power of comma. If you are not, ask editors about it; they will talk about it for days. Comma is the punctuation equivalent of Lord Krishna, taking various incarnations to decimate the satans of the reading and writing world, helping...
by admin | Aug 27, 2013 | Copyediting, Punctuation
I confess – I learnt endashes and emdashes only after I became a copy editor. In my previous post, “I have wondered what difference will it make when a reader sees an en dash.” For very long, I doubted if there is any reader – OK, when I say any, I meant...
by admin | Jul 26, 2013 | Language, Punctuation
I have wondered what difference will it make when a reader sees an en dash. Will he think that it was some wrongly elongated hyphen, or will she make some educated guess? When I began as a copy editor, I hardly imagined that hyphens and en dashes are making the lives...
by admin | Jul 22, 2012 | Grammar, Punctuation
Commas are most probably the tiniest creature that can cause heartbreaks to any copy editor. The simple reason is that they are not solely governed by rules. Arguably, using commas have as many exceptions as there are rules. Consider such as for example. The such as...
