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West Coast Editor 2012
You may view or download any issue of West Coast Editor from 2012. Each is available as a PDF file. Click the title to view it in your web browser, or right-click (Windows) or ctrl-click (Mac) and choose "download" or "save" to save a copy on your computer.
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May 2012 WCE Volunteer Edition (1.67 MB)- Contributors to this issue share little-known facts about their lives
- Member new: Many highlights from UVic seminar, from Erin Potter; Two book-related videos, from Frank Karabotsos
- Word play: Why I’m cautious about using words with “pep,” by Jennifer S. Getsinger
- Language: Do you speak Scots? A WCE quiz
- Conference notes, by Christine LeBlanc and Gael Spivak
- Volunteer with EAC-BC: Why do you volunteer?
- Volunteer with EAC-BC: PR chair: “There’s a huge client base for our members out there,” by Jessica Klassen
- Volunteer with EAC-BC: The elections section
Features
- Local tourist: Adventures at the Table (not a story about dining), by Frances Peck
- The bookshelf, by Jessica Klassen
Etcetera
- May 16: EAC-BC new members welcome session
- May 16: EAC-BC elections/wine and cheese reception
- June 1–3: EAC national conference 2012
- Now you know: Genghis Khan wins prize
- Now you know: WCE finds new home, new format on Internet
- New EAC-BC members
- Answers: “Do you speak Scots?” quiz (from page 7)
- Drive-by Editing
- Why the world needs editors, by Hugh Macdonald
WCE Bugle April 2012 (691.06 KB)
March 2012 Drive-by Editing Issue (1.6 MB)- Contributors to this issue share their thoughts on typos, punctuation, Nancy Drew, C.S. Lewis, and posses of cheeky cats
- Member news: David Harrison takes on new challenge; English: not for the faint-hearted
- What does Chicago say? A WCE quiz
- Conference notes, by Christine LeBlanc and Gael Spivak
Features
- Drive-by Editing photos, by Cheryl Hannah, Frank Karabotsos, Sharon McInnis, Erin Potter, Karen Sawatsky, and Ruth Wilson
- The bookshelf, by Dania Sheldon
Etcetera listings
- March 17: Structural + stylistic = substantive editing
- March 21: New members welcome session
- March 21: Style sheets with substance!
- March 23–24: Campbell River writers’ festival
- March 24: Advanced proofreading
- April 18: EAC certification
- April 21: Picture research
- May 2–4: TD national reading summit
- May 5: Stylistic editing
- May 16: New members welcome session
- May 16: EAC-BC elections and cocktail party
- June 1–3: EAC national conference 2012
- New members
February 2012 "The Language Issue" (1.05 MB)Contents
- Contributors to this issue share some serial-comma and book-related thoughts
- Terms of venery: a WCE quiz
- Elements of Style is an opera?
- Word nerds unite
- Camel case contretemps; End of the serial comma?
- Word art
Features
- The ups and downs of capitalization, by Frances Peck
- The bookshelf, by Cheryl Hannah
Etcetera listings
WCE Bugle January 2012 (447.65 KB)
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