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Michelle L. Corbin tells us what we can learn from 2015 web design trends and about SEO and you.
Jerry Cao recommends free UX e-books.
Marcia Riefer Johnston explains how to simplify our English in How Global Is Your English: 8 Ways to Keep It Simple and Save Big.
Barbara Jungwirth reminds us that English isn’t the same everywhere in English ≠ English.
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By Christina Vasilevski
Frequently Asked Questions. If customers ask certain questions so often that your company requires a dedicated FAQ page, the answers should be so obvious that they write themselves, right?
Not quite. Continue reading “Frequently Asked Questions: What Kind of Editing Do They Need, and How Much?”
By Ruth E. Thaler-Carter, www.writerruth.com 
[Editor’s Note: Ruth Thaler-Carter will be one of three panelists in a special webinar on “First-Year Questions,” cohosted by STC and a partner organization, the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP), to be held on Thursday, January 21, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST. The webinar is free and open only to STC and AIIP members. Register here.
Ruth will also present an STC webinar, “Basics of Editing and Proofreading,” on Wednesday, February 10, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST.]
Starting out in freelancing and finding work go hand in hand. Here are some of the ways that I find freelance writing, editing, proofreading, and other projects. Continue reading “How to Start Freelancing and Find Work”
By Adrienne Julier
A few years ago, I went to a high school graduation, and the valedictorian—an extremely intelligent young woman with close to a perfect SAT score—got up to speak. Her speech was impassioned and obviously well planned; unfortunately, it was also so loaded with obscure words that the vast majority of the audience—including me—couldn’t understand what she was saying. As I glanced around the theater, I soon saw people looking at their programs or, even worse, their phones. Continue reading “Communicating Financial Information: It’s Not What You Know, It’s How Well You Explain It”
by Geoff Hart
I’m often asked whether someone with a humanities background can build a career editing science manuscripts. The answer, as so often in life, is yes…and no. The yes part is easy: English is English in any discipline, and if you’re a skilled editor, you can edit the basic grammar and syntax of English in just about any field without fully understanding the subject matter. The no part is more complex, and a clue to that complexity emerges from answering the inverse of this question: Can an editor with a scientific background edit humanities papers? Continue reading “Editing Science Manuscripts with a Humanities Background”