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R17 - 2025 CPSA Presentation - Editing Your Own Work: A Five-Step Approach

Date: Jun 5 | Time: 10:15am to 11:45am | Location:

It’s hard to edit your own writing, especially when your deadline is looming. This session introduces a step-by-step approach that will enable you to see your own words through a series of lenses that bring a fresh perspective to your writing. You'll learn to use x-ray vision—that is, a way to look through the content of your own text, to see through to its structure. By editing at a structural level, you'll be able to see what you've actually written—not what you think is on the page—and make strategic choices about the 'rules' you want to follow and the ones you want to break. Participants will leave this session with a set of concrete actions that they can take to effectively edit their own work and make it tighter, more efficient, and more readable. Your presenter is Letitia Henville (she/her), PhD, a professional editor of academic writing. She writes the monthly academic writing advice column "Ask Dr. Editor." Her resources for academics can be found at shortishard.com; in June 2022, she launched writingwellishard.com, a free comparative text analysis tool to empower academic writers to make informed choices about how they convey their ideas.

Participants:
Letitia Henville (Writing Short is Hard)