June Casagrande's 'Grammar Underground' is always a good place for finding clear, well-explained posts on the correct usage of grammar and idiom, and as someone who always doubts their own ability to [ read more ]

I love language and the way in which we use words. I also love the sea, and everything in it and on it. I grew up a few miles from Portsmouth on [ read more ]

I sometimes think that the peerless John McIntyre and I were separated at birth, so closely aligned are our editing brains. I have long privately lamented the death of the use of [ read more ]

OPTIMAL EDITORIAL SERVICES IS 3 YEARS OLD TODAY! I became a freelancer because I felt I had nowhere else to go. I didn’t want to carry on climbing the greasy pole of [ read more ]

As discussed by Jaime A Teixeira da Silva in an article in September’s ‘Science Editor’ (https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/detection-and-elimination-of-tortured-phrases/), it’s no secret that academic publishers are gradually cutting copyediting resources. However, they are doing so [ read more ]

It’s been a simmering issue for a while, but in the world of scientific journals, the insistence on manuscript submissions complying with a dense and ever-growing list of formatting and document structural [ read more ]