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Edit This! Quiz #8

Editor’s Note: This is the eighth quiz in the Edit This! series, which is intended to help technical editing practitioners improve their editing skills by editing a challenging piece of text, and then seeing how they did.
We will be posting more of these quizzes throughout 2024-2025.

Try your hand (red pen?) on this edition of the New York Times’s Copy Edit This! quiz, written by Philip B. Corbett. Corbett is the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/17/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-8.html

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Edit This! Quiz #7

Editor’s Note: This is the seventh quiz in the Edit This! series, which is intended to help technical editing practitioners improve their editing skills by editing a challenging piece of text, and then seeing how they did.
We will be posting more of these quizzes throughout 2024-2025.

Try your hand (red pen?) on this edition of the New York Times’s Copy Edit This! quiz, written by Philip B. Corbett. Corbett is the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/27/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-7.html

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Of Interest: October Virtual Lunch: You’re Doing It Wrong – How to Help Writers Grow Through Editing

On Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 1:30 PM ET (click here for your local time), join the STC Coalition online for a moderated group chat on helping writers grow through the function of editing.

Topics of discussion include:

  • Managing content for consistency
  • Editing as a function of professional development
  • Navigating personal preference vs standards and style guides
  • Working with an editor from a different generation

For tickets, go to https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stccoalition/1389240

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      Edit This! Quiz #6

      Editor’s Note: This is the sixth quiz in the Edit This! series, which is intended to help technical editing practitioners improve their editing skills by editing a challenging piece of text, and then seeing how they did.
      We will be posting more of these quizzes throughout 2024-2025.

      Try your hand (red pen?) on this edition of the New York Times’s Copy Edit This! quiz, written by Philip B. Corbett. Corbett is the associate managing editor for standards at The New York Times.

      https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/19/insider/00copyeditquiz6.html