The Copyeditor as Word Detective: Using Lookalikes and Soundalikes to Crack Word Puzzles

Journal of an Academic Copyeditor
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- Feb 20
Journal Title Abbreviations in Zotero and a ChatGPT Story
- Dec 26, 2022
How I Automated Reference Editing with Google Scholar, Zotero, and Citation Style Language
- Oct 16, 2022
Copying Text with Tracked Changes in MS Word
- Oct 13, 2022
The Case of the Line That Would Not Go
- Sep 22, 2022
The Academic Uses of Imprisonment
- Mar 8, 2022
Copyediting Is Problem Solving
- Mar 6, 2022
The Mainstreaming of the Word "Shit" in Personal Transformation Parlance
- Mar 5, 2022
Creative Titles in Scientific Papers
- Mar 4, 2022
The Difference between "Sum" and "Summation" in Mathematical Writing
- Feb 28, 2022
Incident in an Editing Office
- Dec 18, 2021
Spelling Errors in Titles and Headings
- Dec 11, 2021
When Automatic Footnote Renumbering Fails in Word
- Dec 9, 2021
The Book That Wrote Me a Letter
- Dec 9, 2021
The Serendipitous Pleasures of Work-Related Googling
- Sep 16, 2021
The Case of the Sticky Figure
- Aug 24, 2021
No Carelessness Until There Is a Cure
- Aug 5, 2021
A Period Never Follows an Exclamation Mark: An Exception to the Rule
- Jul 26, 2021
The Case of the Jumping Cursor
- Jul 4, 2021
The Case of the Jumping Table