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china wrote me to thank me for my editing he addressed me as professor katharine his thank you is wonderful i am very impressed by your work and your precious effort and efficiency in editing this article i have reviewed it and made revisions and answered the questions hopefully you can afford us further precious refinement of this paper dear author you have made my day clients authors relationships copyeditor copyediting editor editing publishing editormom posted by katharine o moore klopf at 2 20 pm 0 comments monday june 25 2012 communicating in images a picture is indeed worth a thousand words while i was editing a journal manuscript for one of my authors from japan who is a non native english speaker i was having trouble understanding what he meant to say in one particular sentence the topic was imaging in spine surgery he had written in spinal deformities image quality is inferior because radiation does not incident parallel to the vertebrae endplates i e mailed him and asked him to explain it to me so he drew and then e mailed a helpful diagram to me shown here at left i immediately understood that this was what he wanted to say in spinal deformities the image quality is inferior because some of the vertebral endplates are oriented obliquely to the radiation source rather than parallel to it i wrote back right away to thank him and tell him that he is an excellent teacher i was delighted that he had realized that the best way around the language barrier between us was visual close collaboration like that is one of the many reasons i find it so satisfying to work with researchers who are non native english speakers communication clients esl copyeditor copyediting editor editing medical editing medical journals publishing editormom posted by katharine o moore klopf at 9 17 am 0 comments friday june 22 2012 and thus the voyage ended this makes me so sad tstc publishing is closing down because of budget cuts tstc publishing was both an editing client of mine and the publisher of the first textbook i ever coauthored everyone who worked there is talented and i loved working with them mark long has been a visionary publisher leading this nimble little publishing house through lots of innovations that the behemoths are only thinking about doing any publisher who snaps him up will benefit hugely and ana wraight you know i ll be here to mentor you as you decide whether to work for another publisher in house or go freelance tstc publishing recession publishing clients editormom posted by katharine o moore klopf at 4 02 pm 0 comments monday june 18 2012 is editing just checking spelling and grammar sometimes authors who are non native english speakers come to me after reviewers for a biomedical journal have told them that their manuscript needs attention by an editor who is a native english speaker even though the manuscript has been already edited by an english language editing service when i see that issues such as the following have slipped by supposedly professional editing services i m dumbfounded an article i recently edited concerns hip arthroplasty before i edited it one particular sentence read like this skin retraction was performed for 3 weeks and there was no recurrence of dislocation this was my reaction which of course i did not record in the manuscript the incision was left open with the skin retracted for 3 weeks or did surgery happen in extremely slow motion with it taking the surgeon 3 weeks to retract the skin this is how that sentence should have read the patient was placed in skin traction for 3 weeks and dislocation did not recur here is an explanation of skin traction which is definitely not the same thing as skin retraction spelling checkers and editing macros can help catch spelling errors and decrease time spent on rote editorial tasks respectively but they can t replace human editors good editing requires the use of a brain spelling checker copyeditor copyediting editor editing publishing editormom posted by katharine o moore klopf at 9 22 am 2 comments wednesday june 13 2012 copyediting drug names medical editors aren t the only ones who have to deal with drug names in the manuscripts they edit in this guest post my colleague laura poole who is such a talented editor that she teaches newcomers to the trade shares her strategies for handling drug names in nonmedical manuscripts my first job after college was with a company that developed training for pharmaceutical sales reps and it taught me a lot about trademarked drug names in the materials we created we had to make sure the drug name was handled correctly every time it appeared that is with any unique registered marks and trademarks capitalization hyphenation or other symbols i remember my boss specifically saying make sure the drug name isn t hyphenated at the end of a line because that constitutes trademark violation and they could sue us thankfully i no longer have to worry so much about that kind of accuracy however that knowledge of and sensitivity to these terms has come in handy over the years as i branched out to work in scholarly nonfiction i come across materials that are nonscientific or nonmedical in nature that reference particular drugs major style guides have some rules for how to handle trademarked terms but i feel that drug names are a bit of a special case maybe i m still paranoid from that first job so i ve developed a variety of alternatives when i encounter brand name drugs in materials i edit my two preferred style guides chicago manual of style 16th edition cms and the publication manual of the american psychological association 6th edition apa have the following to say cms 8 145 generic names of drugs which should be used wherever possible in preference to brand names are lowercased brand names must be capitalized they are often enclosed in parentheses after the first use of the generic name the patient takes weekly injections of interferon beta 1a avonex to control his multiple sclerosis cms 8 152 although the symbols and often accompany trademark names on product packaging and in promotional material there is no legal requirement to use these symbols and they should be omitted wherever possible apa 4 16 similar to cms states that trade and brand names of drugs should be capitalized generics should be lowercase an issue is that many brand names have become common language just as kleenex and xerox have entered our lexicon and are used in a loose way these days we throw around common or well known drug names such as viagra prozac and claritin sometimes it serves the text to be able to further identify these substances alternatively it might improve the text to do away with the trade names where possible so beyond the cms and apa guidelines i find a few other options to be useful choices and i outline them here first when encountering a drug name in text look it up online to confirm correct spelling any hyphenation that needs to be retained and the generic name of the drug you can almost always find more information by typing www drugname com into your browser if the drug is mentioned in passing only once or twice you might be able to substitute the broad type or class of drug for a brand name or a generic name for instance if the brand name or generic name isn t key to the narrative john takes prozac might easily be changed to john takes an antidepressant or john takes a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor a bit of a mouthful other examples sally takes ace inhibitors to treat her high blood pressure the pharmacist filled a prescription for a calcium channel blocker the doctor prescribed antipsychotics to decrease hallucinations antibiotics are used to treat most ear infections antiretrovirals are effective at treating hiv if you can use the generic to identify the drug i e the brand name isn t key to the discussion in almost all cases then do so and follow the cms and apa guidelines thus john takes prozac might be changed in this case to john takes fluoxetine and you would continue to use fluoxetine every time it appears if you re following cms you would say john takes fluoxetine prozac this gives a bit of a hat tip to the brand name and you only need to identify it at first use examples anne takes propranolol inderal to treat her panic disorder joe took methadone dolophine as part of his rehab program the doctor prescribed a maintenance dose of levothyroxine synthroid you can also reverse this and primarily use the brand name identifying the generic at first mention in parentheses save this for when the brand name itself might be more important to the text or for those times when the generic name might be very long and it is shorter to use the brand name examples the doctor usually prescribed haldol haloperidol for her patients with schizophrenia the gold standard of treatment for edema is lasix furosemide note these first two are examples are cases in which the brand name has entered the lexicon and is very well known viagra sildenafil is the most well known of the so called lifestyle drugs note in this case you definitely need the brand name because the text discusses a specific product phil mickelson endorses enbrel etanercept note this one must retain the trade name because mickelson is endorsing a specific brand name product cialis is a competitor drug to viagra bidil isosorbide dinitrate and hydralazine is considered a commercial failure note the brand name is under discussion also the generic name is very long so the trade name would be shorter and handier to use sometimes i hedge my bets with a parenthetical statement or addition to a footnote that indicates manufacturer information this would be appropriate for certain materials for instance a text that compares various drugs that treat a particular condition or material that discusses the pharmaceutical industry at large here are some examples sildenafil sold by pfizer under the trade name viagra is a blockbuster drug viagra sildenafil pfizer is a lifestyle drug when its patent protection ran out zidovudine originally marketed as retrovir by burroughs wellcome was soon available in a generic version ______________ laura poole is the owner of archer editorial services providing professional copyediting to scholarly publishers she is also the cofounder of editorial bootcamp which provides online and in person training for copyeditors and publishers where to find laura editorial training editorial services business coaching medical editing medical editor drug names generic trademark style copyeditor copyediting editor editing publishing editormom posted by katharine o moore klopf at 9 26 am 6 comments friday june 08 2012 how an editor s style sheet can help the author there s more to editing a manuscript than just fixing spelling punctuation and grammar we copyeditors must keep track of a good many things in a manuscript to ensure that the finished book or article is consistent throughout and doesn t jar the reader by odd deviations from its intended structure message or voice what are some of these proper spelling and capitalization of jargon for a start there s much more such as chronological numbering of chapters and references physical and personality traits of fictional characters and how ranges of numbers are handled to do all of that we create a document called a style sheet as part of the editing process here are examples to download as pdfs for a novel for a book of literary criticism for a medical textbook the style sheet then serves as a reference for anyone who deals with the manuscript later in the publishing process including the author the proofreader the production editor and the indexer recently several colleagues and i had a discussion on facebook about an author s gratitude for my creation of a style sheet for her book editor and writer patrick inman offered an excellent explanation of the value of editors style sheets for authors and he has allowed me to share it here authors are often too close to their material to consciously organize it also for some writers at some points in the process explicit sorting and categorizing may interfere with necessary ambiguity in thinking ambiguity that has to be clarified in the writing but shouldn t be clarified too early in the development of a piece when someone else provides that explicit organization in a style sheet the suggestions it contains can be both supportive and freeing the author can take the advice or leave it or most likely use what works and reject what doesn t style sheets promote and enforce consistency just as important they identify and catalog inconsistencies and in so doing may point out where and how the editor has misunderstood the writer s intent clear points of misunderstanding are great signposts for authors the editor s misapprehension shows the writer where readers may get lost if the author believes the editor has managed to approach read and react to the text approximately as intended readers will any text passages or patterns that the editor misidentifies or miscategorizes deserve close attention the writer can figure out what he or she wants to happen at those junctures and revise the text to make the trail clearer or to make the puzzle more prominent but in any case to create a more deliberate pattern that either gets to the point or creates purposeful confusion or questions in the reader s mind the most enjoyable and possibly headache provoking editing gigs in the world must include continuity editing for the best mystery writers i imagine those style sheets track what the reader knows when as part of their structure including the misleading clues see the circuitry section on pages 30 52 in thomas mccormack the fiction editor the novel and the novelist paul dry books 2006 for more on this mccormack describes with intricate examples what he judges to be two of three essential tasks of novel editing the acts of discovering or inferring and then communicating to the writer first how the text overall and at each point affects its ideal appropriate audience the editor must have the sensibility to experience the text as those readers would and second how the narrative causes those effects the editor must have developed the craft to make informed guesses as to what may be causing undesired effects mccormack wants us to always be aware that the point of editing is to offer clues and tools to the writer that may guide the writer in generating revising cutting and structuring the work to achieve the writer s purposes we can also help the writer decide what those purposes are by demonstrating what the current draft accomplishes or seems close to accomplishing that may or may not be what the writer wants style sheet author copyeditor copyediting editor editing publishing editormom posted by katharine o moore klopf at 10 18 am 2 comments friday june 01 2012 why i m a convert to standing at work standing while i edit at my new sit stand desk i love my new sit stand desk w...