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Freelance
Writers' Series
Career & Business Development Help
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This section provides articles, tips, strategies and tools to help you succeed as an
editorial professional.
Do you freelance or
want to start an editorial/creative business? Be sure to visit our
small business center for advice, tips and
strategies on starting, maintaining and/or expanding your business.
Click
here for a list
of companies that seek freelance copy editors, proofreaders, editors and
indexers on a regular basis.
Editorial Workshops &
Seminars: Click
here.
Industry Specific Editorial Jobs:
This section gives you a place to start/learn more about career
possibilities within the creative and editorial industries.
Many of the articles
contain links to further readings.
Editorial Symbols:
Table of Editing/Copyediting Marks
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Feedback:
I just wanted to send you a brag
email – I am a former English major who now works in broadcast news
– never got a formal grammar background. I certainly wasn’t versed
in AP style at all. But then I got an offer for an interview for a
copyediting job. In two days. And I was going to have to take an
EDITING test. On AP STYLE. PANIC! I did a search, found your site,
and after two days and evenings of doing AP Style tests non-stop and
cramming with my brand new AP Stylebook, I aced my test and got
asked back for a second interview! THANK YOU!
E.
Burt
Feedback:
Thank you
so much for putting all those testing links on your site… I'm doing some of
the AP style tests now… a job interview came up out of the blue and I was
able to brush up on my rusty spelling. What a big, big, big help! Thank you!
C. Townsel, Atlanta, GA |
Resume
& Cover Letter Preparation
**Resume Tips
**Article:
What NOT to do When Submitting a Cover/Intro
Letter for a Job/Freelance Gig
Straight from the
Source
Editor to Editor: Q&A
from Editors Only (A Peer to Peer Newsletter for Editors)
Editorial Testing (Overview, Tests, Types of )
**Insight:
When You Should Refuse to Test for a Job
**More Insight: MediaBistro.com forum thread on the ins,
outs, whys and why nots of testing
**AP
Style: An Overview
**AP-style Copyediting Test
**More AP-style Tests
**General Editing Test
I
**General Editing
Test II
**Art Director Test
**4-minute Grammar
Tests
**Spelling Test
(Most commonly misspelled words)
**Chicago Manual of Style (Downloadable CE Test)
**Chicago
Manual of Style Website (Q&A, About, Etc.)
**MLA
Style: An Overview
**AMA Style:
An Overview
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Career Ebook:
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Bookshelf for Editorial
Workers: The following are considered "bibles" of the editorial
craft; some are industry specific.
**AP
Stylebook
**The
Elements of Style
**Chicago
Manual of Style
**Merriam-Webster
Dictionary
**Words
into Type
**MLA
Handbook of Style
**American
Medical Association Manual of Style
**Technical
Editing: The Practical Guide for Editors and Writers
**Scientific Style
and Format: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers
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