Introduction:  What is The Chicago Manual of Style and who uses it?   Published by the University of Chicago Press, The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS or sometimes just Chicago) is traditionally an academic guide that also has wide-ranging application in publishing among  academic and nonacademic books, in the business world, and on the web. Many editing and proofreading companies revert …

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Research citations are unavoidable for research writers. Although they are among the most important elements of research writing and presentations, they are often also among the most neglected. These oversights are often the result of prioritizing the writing (articles and books) along with the visual and stylistic elements (presentations) over the sources of information and …

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This month’s post is for writers of blogs and newsletters and other social media copy. If you’ve researched web copy & content, you’ve likely encountered the term evergreen content, which is vital to a website’s search engine optimization (SEO).  What does it mean? Essentially, evergreen content means content that doesn’t easily go out of date. Web …

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Describing my website revisions and reflecting on the journaling process.

Understanding the lingo of writing and editing professionals Perhaps you’ve just finished an e-book or you are launching a new business. You want to be sure you are presenting a professional image; that merits the help of a professional in the writing & editing field. So, you start looking for editors… of which there seem …

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