Well, it’s pretty busy in Word Blog land, which is why I haven’t been quite so diligent about posting new entries. I’m taking courses in digital publishing and scholarly publishing these days, and showing up for work, too, so there hasn’t been as much time to hang out here. When I finish these courses in early August, I’ll be the fancy holder of a certificate in publishing from Ryerson University and also have a little more free time to throw around.
In the meantime, since I’m reading Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought at the moment, I thought I’d share this intriguing TED talk with you. Enjoy!
Word in the Wild: Welcome to the Word Blog’s one hundredth post—who’d have thought the centuplation of blog entries could have happened this quickly? I hope you’re having as much fun as I am with all these words!
I’m looking forward to writing hundreds more entries and, as always, I thank you for any words of encouragement, words of wisdom, and words of advice you’d like to send my way. Thanks for reading, fellow verbivores!
Your humble blogger,
Heather
You can find a complete listing of the Word Blog’s Vest-Pocket Vocabulary entries and learn more about where they come from here.
Here you’ll find my thoughts about editing and grammar and the English language.
What are my qualifications, you ask?
Well, I’m a proofreader and copy editor who is currently working in-house for a publisher of fiction in Toronto, and I’m a voting member of the Editors’ Association of Canada. Before I forayed into the publishing world, I taught English usage and style to undergraduate students at the University of Guelph’s Learning and Writing Centre, University of Victoria’s Faculty of Business, and Queen’s University’s Faculty of Applied Science.
So I’ve got a good handle on writing genres from lab reports, history essays, and job applications to medical textbooks, requests for proposals, and novels. And—dare I say it?—I’ve got a pretty darn good lockdown on English grammar, too.
Please feel welcome to introduce yourself in the comments for this post if you’d like. I’m interested to know just who my audience is!
