4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
By Mark Taylor Across 1 Not right, desiring bard over novel, but it’s not the whole story (8,7) 9 Amperage jolted leeching energy to storm (7) 10 Spoil 1 down: clue better endings for Boatman (7) 11 Softly at home and secure (3) 12 Band set as 10 punishing beats...
4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
Across: 1. abridged version, 9. rampage, 10. mariner, 11. pin, 12. bastinadoes, 13. love affair, 15. isle, 18. sunk, 20. siamese cat, 23. micromanage, 25. sea, 26. dongles, 27. guiding, 28. cross-fertilised Down: 1. acropolis, 2. Romanov, 3. dead-beat, 4. evens,...
4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
By Ann Philpott, SIGAE facilitator The Special Interest Group on Academic Editing (SIGAE) started after the 2023 IPEd conference. It holds informal meetings every second month (see dates of meetings for the rest of the year at the end of this article) to discuss...
4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
From the Standing Committee on Awards and Prizes IPEd invites nominations for the 2025 Janet Mackenzie Medal (the Mackenzie) from 2 September to 4 November 2024. The Notice of Intention to nominate must be sent to IPEd via email by COB 14 October 2024. The Mackenzie...
4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
By Julie Ganner AE The third edition of the IPEd Standards for Editing Practice states that editors “should edit consciously and promote the principles of inclusive language … [and be] aware of discriminatory or biased terms” (D3). Language has the power...
4 September 2024 | Newsletters, September 2024
President’s report by Margaret Trudgeon AE Where did winter go? We seem to have skipped part of it and landed in spring, with blossoms blooming everywhere and many of the trees either in bud or bursting out their new leaves. August was a month of exams and...
