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Editing a Scholarly Bilingual Glossary

10/1/2024

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Page of Italian-English glossary words
Photo: by Carla DeSantis (M. Danesi, Barron's E-Z Italian, p. 342). N.B. Photo is not of glossary discussed.
​Last fall, I had the opportunity to edit a somewhat different genre for me, but still within the scholarly realm: a 168-page English glossary of Nahuatl words, phrases, and place names, including some Hispanicized words derived from Nahuatl.
​As a linguist who has spent countless hours consulting dictionaries over the years, and with an academic interest in historical linguistics and language-teaching materials, I jumped at the chance to put this massive list of words in consistent and consultable order.

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How to Earn More Money in Your Freelance Editing Business

28/4/2023

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*A version of this blog post was originally published on the CIEP blog, 15 April 2022.
How can editors earn more money in their freelance editing business? Carla DeSantis discusses the advice presented by Malini Devadas at a Toronto CIEP (Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading) local group meeting:
  • Common mistakes when setting rates
  • Mindset and strategy
  • Marketing your freelance editing business

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    I am Carla DeSantis, and welcome to my blog! I love language and words and books, and have turned this love into a business, helping others to perfect their written message.

    I am an editor who specializes in scholarly and academic works, and I help professors, scholars, authors, and publishers polish their work for publication. I focus on the details so you don't have to!

    Because of my experience in academia, research, and publishing, I can confidently handle scholarly apparatus and complex works with the expert care that academic authors need.

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