Today I’m proofreading a contemporary fiction novel set in England and Ireland. Later this afternoon I’ll be catching up on some videos from this year’s CIEP conference.
#AmProofreading #CPD #CIEP2024
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My personal highlights from the CIEP Conference 2024
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A signed bookplate inside a copy of the book: "The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction"
One of the highlights of #CIEP2024 for me was not only meeting @amyjschneider.bsky.social and getting a signed bookplate for my copy of her awesome book, but doing so as part of the same quiz team! (Unfortunately the quiz was general knowledge with a whole round on sports, rather than style guides!)
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Home and tired after #CIEP2024, I’ve just remembered that the hot topic after last year’s conference was… the light switches 😆 Here’s Kia’s amazing thread so you can laugh at it all over again 🤣🤣
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Goodbye #ciep2024, you were wonderful! I always leave feeling so inspired, and with so many new connections! A special thank you to anyone who came to see @geckoedit.bsky.social and me talk about editing games! (Here we are looking very proud, and slightly bleary-eyed, just beforehand!)
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English is just weird. Gold star for that. 🌟 #CIEP2024
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Good thread by @nicolabigwood.uk summarising @lynneguist.bsky.social's conference session. On words. Or not, maybe. #language #lexicalisation #CIEP2024
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You're All Talk by Rob Drummond, on a table next to a CIEP conference badge and lanyard
Sorry, @robdrummond.bsky.social - I promised yesterday that I would buy your book... but then I won it in the raffle! #CIEP2024
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Super chuffed (and very surprised!) to have won a fiction editing course for #CPD in the raffle at the closing plenary of #CIEP2024! 🥳
Thanks, CIEP, for another great conference and for looking after us online attendees so well! 🙌
And thanks for all the chats, #edibuddies – see you at #CIEP2025! 😎
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So, what’s a word?
Are you bilingual or do you just speak 2 languages?
Are ‘colour’ & ‘color’ variants of same word, or 2 different words?
‘We pay £5’ is 3 words in writing, but 4 in speech.
Is a grammatical error only an error because it has a name?
Embrace uncertainty not pedantry!
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Word choice still matters. We may have similar words but the fact that they're separate words also signals that they may mean something different. (It'll depend on context.) Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing lecture #CIEP2024
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Embrace uncertainty in our work as editors. Don't end up in a category fight :) Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing lecture #CIEP2024
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What is an "error"? Something not in the style guide? A spelling mistake? An undesirable construction (e.g., passive voice)? @lynneguist.bsky.social, closing talk #CIEP2024
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Categories are based on similarity, but what's similar depends on the context.
Categories can be arbitrarily defined.
But lay people tend to think of categories as more "real" than those categories actually may be.
Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing lecture #CIEP2024
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Words don’t always have a one-to-one relationship. Biscuit & cake are different, but definitions might blur if context is e.g. taxation rather than tea-break (looking at you, Jaffa Cakes! 😋). Chicken burger in US not same as UK (burger=ground meat vs. grilled savoury thing in a bun).
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The most fraught type of category fights (arguments about who/what fits into certain categories): (1) people, (2) land, and (3) food (what qualifies as a "biscuit"?). Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing lecture #CIEP2024
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We glean more info about something the more ways we describe it, as rightly or wrongly we associate meaning/sub-context with different words.
In English, red & pink are different colours, but blue is blue (differentiated by light/dark adjectives), where other langs use distinct words.
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Communication is conveying our categories to others. Miscommunication is when those categories don't match 🤔 Prof. Lynne Murphy, closing talk #CIEP2024
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No such thing as a word, with @lynneguist.bsky.social
Lexicalisation: putting words to our experience of the world.
Perspective matters, sometimes: a barrel’s a barrel; a flat surface could be floor or ceiling.
Categorisation: groups (family resemblance).
Conceptualisation: context.
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Editor blog 101: How to write blog posts that attract clients to your editing business, with Dr Magda Wojcik.
Blog needs purpose: it’s not a quick fix.
Build trust & credibility.
Who’s it for?
Keywords! (Google Keyword Planner’s free)
Be patient, consistent, authentic: write what you know.
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You can't be too kind when you're communicating with the author :) Gerard M-F Hill, "Asking the author" #CIEP2024
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There are no plans to put AI into PerfectIt.
Daniel Heuman, "Empowering multilingual writers: AI to support authors writing beyond their 1st language" #CIEP2024
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AI doesn't know when to ignore "rules" - and writing and editing are about aesthetics. So AI is not going to replace human editors yet!
Daniel Heuman, "Empowering multilingual writers: AI to support authors writing beyond their 1st language" #CIEP2024
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So can AI help? AI is good for tightly bound, specific tasks. It could make a *sentence* more fluent, but may not work so well with a *document*.
Daniel Heuman, "Empowering multilingual writers: AI to support authors writing beyond their 1st language" #CIEP2024
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Some things that might cause difficulties: definite/indefinite articles, prepositions, word order, modifiers, repetition and long sentences, pronouns...and English is just weird 😁
Daniel Heuman, "Empowering multilingual writers: AI to support authors writing beyond their 1st language" #CIEP2024
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Editing multilingual authors' work can take a lot of cognitive effort too.
Daniel Heuman, "Empowering multilingual writers: AI to support authors writing beyond their 1st language" #CIEP2024
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Multilingual authors take longer to write, revise, prepare (presentations), face more revisions and more rejections to get published. Daniel Heuman, "Empowering multilingual writers: AI to support authors writing beyond their first language" #CIEP2024
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Here's a taste of Brummie culture that my lovely
#ciep2024 friends will love. This young person's spoken word performances are even better than her written poetry. And isn't this lovely?
Enjoy the rest of the conference - don't be strangers!
#WritingCommunity
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Great thread by @theclarityeditor.bsky.social on Debbie Emmitt's conference session on editor websites and how to make them work for you and your (ideal) clients. #CIEP2024
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It's fun to present to editors. They're so smart and receptive. #CIEP2024
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