Jennifer Rubio, copyeditor and proofreader. 15 years of experience in health, politics & policy, and news media. Mommy to a very good kitty.
Joined December 2016
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23 Mar 2023
"have full confidence in our ability to" ----> "can"
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23 Mar 2023
I feel like I've been on Page 19 of 25 forever. Someone tell me there's an end to this!
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23 Mar 2023
Thanks to everyone for keeping those of us #NotAtACES apprised of those all-important AP style changes!
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15 Dec 2022
Is it me, or is "Spell out a number if it begins a sentence" possibly the dumbest rule there is? *grumbling over "87% of students do such-and-such*
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22 Sep 2022
Making new connections with other editors and proofreaders at #ACESaccelerate this week! Hello to all!
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7 Jun 2022
I keep wanting to change "OGP" to "GOP" in this edit. Very American-centric of me. But my brain keeps tripping over it anyway. #amediting
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3 Feb 2022
Hmm. Can't say I like this new Word feature to highlight spell-check items when you mouse over them. I keep thinking there's a comment on the word. #MicrosoftWord #amediting
10 Jan 2022
Happy New Year! I've revised my website at magicwandediting.com - now you can learn more about what I do (and what I do best) and new services such as reference formatting!
30 Nov 2021
Today in "words that are not nearly as exciting as they sound": electrovaporization. #amediting
15 Oct 2021
More newspapers and magazines ought to put the citation information (headline, author, date) in front of the paywall. Had to cancel a bunch of subscriptions I made two weeks ago for an endnote project and I have to jump through ALL the hoops now.
22 Sep 2021
I would like to offer my sympathies to anyone who had to read today’s CNN chyron that said scientists were “pouring over” data.
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8 Sep 2021
Today's mystery: why does @ChicagoManual use commas between elements of a citation in a note, but periods between the same elements in a bibliography?
28 Jul 2021
When you're booked through the month of September but still have a wide open August... #freelancelife
18 Jul 2021
When you’ve wrangled all the reference numbers and fixed each one manually and then you can send the piece back to the client and go to BED amirite 🛌🛌🛌🥱🥱🥱
5 Jul 2021
When did spaces on either side of a slash become a thing? AFAIK, this shouldn't be a thing. Tell me #edibuddies am I woefully behind the times or am I right to correct this?
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5 Jul 2021
I have to give props to this document I #amediting. An actual em dash used where an em dash ought to be, and "is composed of" instead of "is comprised of"!! Gold star to you. Anyone else feel slightly thrilled when you see this stuff correct? :)
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