Category Archives: English Language
Idioms
According to the Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus (1996), an idiom is a group of words established by usage and having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words. I will never forget the first time I learned about … Continue reading
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Last Copyediting Class
Monday night, our instructor went over the homework assignment which was primarily about subject and verb agreements. I had to look up what the subject for a sentence was because I hadn’t studied this since junior high school. Upon reviewing … Continue reading
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Latest Copyediting Class
Monday evening, we reviewed our homework assignments in which we had to create a style guide for a piece we had to edit. A style guide is a reference guide a copyeditor creates for his or herself while editing a … Continue reading
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Grammar Rules
My second Copyediting class was an eye-opener. For one thing, I don’t know if I actually want to pursue this as a freelancer. Maybe I’m feeling this way because I’m at the beginning stages and you don’t learn a skill … Continue reading
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Copyediting
On Monday night, I took my first ever copyediting class. The Mediabistro’s website offers many classes to provide useful skills for writers and anybody in the media industry. The class had sixteen people, primarily composed of women. The instructor was … Continue reading
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