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May 22, 2020
Research Tip – Navigating Emond Ebooks
By Ken Fox, Research Librarian In my last post, I showed you how to find Emond Ebooks and enable your Adobe Flash Player. If you have not enabled Flash, please...
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March 3, 2016
Tips from the Editor – Email Etiquette
By Kelly Laycock Being a known word and grammar geek, I receive tons of links from friends and colleagues to cute posts they’ve come across about poor grammar and punctuation,...
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March 11, 2015
Tips from the Editor – Abbreviation Clarification (Part 2)
By Kelly Laycock As I mentioned in my previous post about abbreviations, conventions abound, and it is often confusing to know which style to use. I will take a look...
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March 3, 2015
Tips from the Editor – Source of Style
By Kelly Laycock Now, I know I’m supposed to be finishing up my discussion of Abbreviation Clarification (Part 2) this week, and I really do want to look more closely...
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February 18, 2015
Tips from the Editor – Abbreviation Clarification (Part 1)
By Kelly Laycock Abbreviations have been around for as long as people have been putting thoughts to paper (or stone, parchment, or whatever other materials have been used throughout history)....
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January 27, 2015
Gender Bias
By Kelly Laycock With recent events in the news, from the Dalhousie dentistry Facebook scandal to the charges laid against former CBC talk show host Jian Ghomeshi, the topic of...
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October 2, 2014
Tips from the Editor – A Readable Document is a Document that Gets Read
By Kelly Laycock Is there anyone else out there who, like me, spends a lot of time looking at legal documents and wondering what kind of awful time warp they’ve...
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September 16, 2014
Tips from the Editor – New Additions to the Oxford Dictionaries
[caption id="attachment_1483" align="alignright" width="460"] Source: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/[/caption] By Kelly Laycock “The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the...
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September 3, 2014
Tips from the Editor – Punctuation Personalities
By Kelly Laycock Have you ever wondered what kind of punctuation mark you would be? Me neither. But someone has, and they’ve spent some time and creativity dreaming it up!...
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August 27, 2014
Tips from the Editor – From Hyphens to Triple Ems
By Kelly Laycock Okay, we all know what hyphens are (although I bet most of us don’t use them correctly all the time), but how many of you have ever...
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