{"id":912,"date":"2012-04-07T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/?p=912"},"modified":"2014-04-01T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T16:21:47","slug":"editing-and-the-elements-of-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/2012\/04\/07\/editing-and-the-elements-of-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing and the Elements of Style"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professional editing is our “secret advantage” at TSP and\u00a0this secret advantage has a name: Ms. Letta Page. Without her sharp-eyed and supportive editorial work, we’d be offering far less content on these pages — and what we could provide would be much sloppier and less readable. Together with web editor Jon Smajda, she’s also responsible for much of the\u00a0elegant design work and illustration you see\u00a0around the site.<\/p>\n

Associate editor Letta Page usually toils anonymously in her behind the scenes role as self-described editrix and language maven. Today, however, she’s featured in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune <\/a>style section.\u00a0Letta’s style and positive energy shine through in her editorial work, but she’s also<\/em> got killer fashion sense. Because\u00a0her contemporaries are rarely so passionate about\u00a0grammar,\u00a0diction, and\u00a0the (retro-cool) Elements of Style<\/a>, she\u00a0suspects that our authors tend to picture her as\u00a0“the sort of editor who wears her\u00a0glasses on a chain.”<\/p>\n

Ms. Page is also passionate about intellectual property, ensuring that we don’t appropriate the work of photographers, writers, and artists without their permission. A shortened version<\/a> of the article is online, but you’ll have to\u00a0purchase the newsprint version of this morning’s\u00a0Strib <\/em>to see\u00a0the full\u00a0story and\u00a0images.<\/p>\n

Our authors don’t care so much about our fashion choices, of course (which is\u00a0fortunate, in light of the\u00a0crimes against fashion routinely perpetrated\u00a0by professors Uggen and Hartmann).\u00a0But they do appreciate an editor who can simultaneously sharpen their prose and bring their ideas to full flower. Great editing, like great\u00a0style,\u00a0never goes out of fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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