Charles Stewart

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Freelance scientific copy-editor.

You can read my irregular waffles at advogato.org/person/chalst/.

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Apr 22	comment	Writing a bibliography Do note that this author-title format for the reflist is just one of two approaches used by Chicago; the style also supports author-date.
Apr 22	comment	What needs to be included in a corporate style guide? Great answer. Two points: (i) not all CSGs are so focussed on design aspects - to take a CSG from my experience, the KPMG style guide had more instructions concerning their idiosyncratic punctuation and less to do with visual layout; (ii) even with your CSG, I think the intersection with "editorial" is bigger than the intersection with "design".
Apr 19	revised	Our note in footnote of a book minor readability fixes, add tag
Apr 19	awarded	Critic
Apr 19	comment	Writing first programming book 500-750 words per page? That's dense text! I would change the size of text to get a more user-friendly 250-300 words per page. It will give you more of a sense of progress, and be kinder on the eye when you want to review your work.
Apr 19	asked	Avoiding foot&note disease
Apr 19	answered	Our note in footnote of a book
Apr 19	suggested	suggested edit on Our note in footnote of a book
Apr 17	answered	How do I find an affordable editor?
Apr 13	comment	I'm an editor who generally uses Word to communicate changes with my authors. Is Adobe's InCopy better for this task? Oh, I remember asking this question! I had meant to dig out some of the old proposal questions myself, +1.
Apr 12	comment	What are the most common style manuals? I'd say a readership is an audience, but I guess this starts to be hairsplitting.
Apr 12	answered	I'm an editor who generally uses Word to communicate changes with my authors. Is Adobe's InCopy better for this task?
Apr 12	comment	What are the most common style manuals? Not so much audience as publication venue. Authors sometimes choose to follow a particular style guide, but more often if a style guide is followed, it is because their publisher insisted on it.
Apr 12	revised	Publishing and selling ebooks minor fixes, following http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2436941
Apr 7	comment	When should I use punctuation with bullets? The virtue of this style is that it is a possible approach to punctuating the list inline inside a single sentence (e.g., "For example: (a) Apples; (b) Oranges; (c) Pears.") But note that this is a minority approach. Chicago is the most important scholarly style guide.
Apr 7	comment	How credible is wikipedia? There's an assumption here that Encyclopedia Britannica is regarded as reference quality in scientific research. In fact, tertiary sources such as encyclopedias are rarely cited in research, and are treated with a certain degree of suspicion.
Apr 6	comment	How credible is wikipedia? @alexy13 I hope [Google Scholar]'s better than wikipedia: It's about the same quality as Google Books, which is to say, lots of scanning errors, lots of problems with metadata (most annoyingly, the date attribute is frequently wrong, undermining the value of date-limited searches). Its great virtue is that there is no comparable discipline-independent paper search since Microsoft dropped their offering.
Apr 4	answered	What methods can I use to revise my writing?
Apr 4	comment	How to obtain a thoughtful critique of a job application cover letter? And every cover letter is custom-written for each job I'm interested in. - Do this even if you ignore everything else: form letters are really obvious.
Apr 4	comment	How credible is wikipedia? @Ralph: Google Scholar indexes a lot of papers that are not published online or are behind paywalls. I find Google Scholar absolutely essential: once you get the hang of it, I guess you will find it valuable too.