One nifty part of academic editing is that you never stop learning. Whether you’re working on a developmental edit on a paper on biomimetic interfaces or copyediting a chapter of a book on eighteenth-century West African textiles, you’ll pick up a little knowledge you didn’t have before. It’s just part of the job. Another part of the job is continuous editorial education—but to advance your current skills or pick up new ones, you have to do some legwork to find the right course for your learning style, goals, and budget.

Register to join the Academic Editing Chapter’s December Coffee Chat on Friday, December 20, at 4 p.m. PDT / 7 p.m. EDT to talk about how we editors go about learning new tricks. You can share your experiences—maybe you’ve taken a university-based copyediting course or a few EFA ones that you can describe. Or maybe you’ve decided 2025 is your year to pick up legal editing or medical editing. Here’s your chance to get advice and hear from others about what they’ve tried.

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