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“The Chicago Manual of Style” and I Turn to a New Page
Changes Ahead
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Rebekah Slonim
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March 2024

Happy National Proofreading Day
Teddy Roosevelt, the Copyeditor, Designer, and Proofreader
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Rebekah Slonim
4

February 2024

Copyediting Is Not the End, but What Happens Afterward?
A Enthusiastic Recommendation of Debbie Berne’s “The Design of Books”
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Rebekah Slonim
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January 2024

Pass the Tabasco
A Style Primer on Brand Names and Trademarks—and Some History about the Famous Hot Sauce
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Rebekah Slonim
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Rachel Lane

December 2023

Surprised by Italics
Copyediting, Joy, and C. S. Lewis
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Rebekah Slonim
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November 2023

Not the “Best-Chosen” Punctuation, At Least by Contemporary Standards
Jane Austen’s Dashes, Semicolons, Hyphens, Commas, and Apostrophes
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Rebekah Slonim
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October 2023

Even Jane Austen Needs a Copyeditor
Why the Famed Novelist’s “Best-Chosen Language” Doesn’t Make Her an Expert on Style and Grammar
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Rebekah Slonim
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July 2023

Binding the Nation through Inserting and Deleting Commas
Abraham Lincoln on Revision
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Rebekah Slonim

June 2023

Making Manuscripts American
The Role of a Copyeditor in the United States
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Rebekah Slonim
1

March 2023

Reading Like a Copyeditor
The Wind in the Willows and the Whole Book Approach
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Rebekah Slonim
2

January 2023

Of Dissertations and Journal Articles
Where Mathematics Meets Copyediting
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Rebekah Slonim
1

December 2022

A “Great Labour” and a Great Joy
Winston S. Churchill on Proofreading and Formatting
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Rebekah Slonim
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