Fixing grammar and spelling mistakes is a small part of an editor's work. Editors plan, coordinate, revise, correct and format content for publication. Editors responsibilities:<ul><li>Revising text for content, structure, length, tone, and voice issues.</li><li>Editing text for paragraph and sentence-level,</li><li>Giving feedback and supporting writers.</li><li>Developing ideas and assigning them to writers.</li><li>Communicating and coordinating with writers.</li><li>Managing budgets.</li><li>Setting and coordinating deadlines.</li><li>Tracking performance.</li></ul>

Editor duties and responsibilities

Editors usually focus on one type of medium. The most common areas include:
<ul>
<li>Book editing: Project managing the entire journey of the book and getting it published.</li>
<li>Newspaper editing. Editors edit text and ensure it matches the paper's voice, style, tone, and ethical standards.</li>
<li>Magazine editing. Editors bring an article from the idea phase through publication. They work with copy editors, fact-checkers, top editors, designers, illustrators, photographers and lawyers.</li>
<li>Online media and content editing.</li>
<li>Communications editing. Many organisations put out written internal and external communications.</li>
</ul>

Different kinds of editing

Editors can work for any company putting out written content. Editors can also work as freelancers for several clients. There are many opportunities to work remotely. The career outlook: Editor positions are expected to grow 5% between 2020 and 2030, slower than the average for other occupations. Editor positions in information services are expected to grow 27.7%, while print magazines and newspapers are projected to decline 4.7%.

Logistical details of editing as a career

<ul><li>Strong writing skills. You need to know how writing conveys messages and information and how different choices may affect how your piece is read.</li><li>Good communications skills</li><li>Knowledge of grammar and other language rules</li><li>Knowledge of story and/or article structure</li><li>Style guides and how to stick to them</li><li>Interpersonal skills</li><li>Organisational skills</li><li>Time management skills</li><li>Project management skills</li><li>Giving and receiving constructive feedback</li><li>Creativity</li><li>Adaptability</li><li>Ability to work under pressure</li></ul>

Editor skills

<ul><li>Companies often require at least a bachelor's degree, with majors in English, journalism, communications.</li><li>You can also learn from managers and coworkers; however, companies will want to see that you know the basics of writing mechanics and structure.</li><li>Completing an internship in the industry can help your employment chances.</li></ul>

Education, training, certification

<ul><li>Do you love reading and language?</li><li>Do you want to be a lifelong learner? Some fields will require you to learn new things constantly.</li><li>Are you OK with working behind the scenes?</li><li>Do you really want to be a writer? Editors are often frustrated writers. If you want to write, then write.</li><li>Do you want to be a writer with a day job? You may find it difficult to write after a long day of editing, but it is not impossible.</li></ul>

Considering if editing is the right career

<ul><li>Read the medium you want to edit as hiring managers want to see that you're engaging with the industry.</li><li>Study the companies where you apply to. Look at their publications and websites.</li><li>Don't skip the cover letter. That is the first chance you have to show off your writing and editing skills.</li><li>Proofread all application materials.</li><li>Prepare for an editing test.</li></ul>

How to get a job as an editor

Not sure if editing is the career for you? Here’s everything you need to know before you decide.

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Should You Turn Your Love of Words Into an Editing Career?

If you have the same question, then this quote may help you take the right decision. "Not everything's that's satisfying, good for you" - Godwin Joseph

Does something Satisfying Always Have to be Good ?

Tips that help me manage my time better as a student.

🧑‍🏫 Procrastinating or wasting ⌚?

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Better Ways To Remember 

These tricks will help you learn anything fast, such as psychology, for whatever assignments you have or work you need to do. These mind tricks make you learn faster than usual! Drinking Water Improves Exam Grades https://www.bbc.com/news/education-17741653 Why Your Brain Needs Water https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-illuminated/201010/why-your-brain-needs-water Effect of Mastication on Motor Preparation Processing https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19447294/ Tea Improves Memory https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041030144110.htm Chewing Gum: Cognitive Performance https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449949/ Evidence that Chewing Gum Affects Stress, Alertness, and Cognition http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/smith/206.pdf 10 Proven Ways to Learn Faster https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/323450 Scientific Ways to Learn Anything Faster https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/these-10-scientific-ways-to-learn-anything-faster-could-change-everything-you-know-about-dramatically-improving-your-memory.html Study Smart https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2011/11/study-smart Tricks to Improve Your Memory https://time.com/52237/7-tricks-to-improve-your-memory/ Benefits of Studying with Music https://www.fnu.edu/benefits-studying-music/ Music from Bensound.com Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO), HowlingCreations for helping to create this video!

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These tricks will help you learn anything fast, such as psychology, for whatever assignments you have or work you need to do. These mind tricks make you learn faster than usual! 

Drinking Water Improves Exam Grades
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-17741653

Why Your Brain Needs Water
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/you-illuminated/201010/why-your-brain-needs-water

Effect of Mastication on Motor Preparation Processing
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19447294/

Tea Improves Memory
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041030144110.htm

Chewing Gum: Cognitive Performance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4449949/

Evidence that Chewing Gum Affects Stress, Alertness, and Cognition
http://psych.cf.ac.uk/home2/smith/206.pdf

10 Proven Ways to Learn Faster
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/323450

Scientific Ways to Learn Anything Faster
https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/these-10-scientific-ways-to-learn-anything-faster-could-change-everything-you-know-about-dramatically-improving-your-memory.html

Study Smart
https://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2011/11/study-smart

Tricks to Improve Your Memory
https://time.com/52237/7-tricks-to-improve-your-memory/

Benefits of Studying with Music
https://www.fnu.edu/benefits-studying-music/

Music from Bensound.com

Thanks to Tristan Reed (writing), Troy W. Hudson (VO), HowlingCreations for helping to create this video!

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10 Mind Tricks to Learn Anything Fast!

Drawing is a powerful tool of communication. It helps build self-understanding and can boost mental health.But our current focus on productivity, outcomes and “talent” has us thinking about it the wrong way. Too many believe the myth of “I can’t draw”, when in fact it’s a skill built through practice.Dedicated practice is hard, however, if you’re constantly asking yourself: “What’s the point of drawing?”We need to reframe our concept of what it means to draw, and why we should do it – especially if we think we can’t.

Drawing Is Good

Devoting a little time to drawing each day may make you happier, more employable and sustainably productive.New jobs are emerging all the time for visual thinkers who can translate complex information into easily understood visuals.Big companies hire comic creators to document corporate meetings visually, so participants can track the flow of ideas in real-time. Cartoonists are paid to draft innovative, visual contracts for law firms.

Drawing In 2022

Art-making can reduce anxiety, elevate mood, improve quality of life and promote general creativity. Art therapy has even been linked to reduced symptoms of distress and higher quality of life for cancer patients.And it can help you enter a “flow state”, where self-consciousness disappears, focus sharpens, work comes easily to you and mental blockages seem to evaporate.

Benefits Of Drawing

Cultivating a drawing habit means letting go of biases against drawing and against copying others to learn technique. Resisting the urge to critically compare your work to others’ is also important.Most children don’t care about what’s considered “essential” to a functioning society. They draw instinctively and freely.Part of the reason drawing rates are thought to be higher in Japan is their immersion in Manga (Japanese comics), a broadly popular and culturally important medium.

Cultivating a Drawing Habit

Unlike language, we consider it normal for people not to learn to draw, and consider those who do to be exceptional.Without sufficient practise and exposure to an external system, a basic system persists despite arguably impoverished developmental conditions.

Drawing Is Language

With regular practice, you may find yourself occasionally melting into states of “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)">flow</a>”, becoming wholly absorbed. A small, regular pocket of time to temporarily escape the busy world and enter a flow state via drawing may help you in other parts of your life.

State Of Flow

Use simple tools that you’re comfortable with, whether it’s a ballpoint pen on post-it notes, pencil on paper, a dirty window, or a foggy mirror.Times you’d typically be aimlessly scrolling on your phone are prime candidates for a quick sketch. Doodle when you’re on the phone, watching a movie, bored in a waiting room.Together with mindful doodling, drawing from observation and memory form a holy trinity of sustainable proficiency

How To Start Drawing Naturally

I’m a keen doodler who turned a hobby into a PhD and then a career. I’ve also seen what hurdles people face when it comes to learning to draw and how they can be overcome.

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Have you fallen for the myth of 'I can't draw'? Do it anyway – and reap the rewards

Typically, failure is something people avoid. It can be painful, career-limiting, and disheartening. But failure can also deliver significant advantages—and contrary to common belief, you may reach your goals (or resolutions for the new year) more effectively when you find ways to embrace failure.Failure has plenty of benefits—from stoking learning and new relationships to developing motivation and confidence. And there are some specific ways you can lean into an experience—ways to practice failure in order to achieve success.

Avoiding Failure

Failure is part of success; and if you never fail, you are likely not trying hard enough or you may be deceiving yourself. To fail means you have reached for a new goal, and you can hone your approach for your next shot at it. To fail means you’ve had the opportunity to learn about the skills or capabilities you need to develop. And to fail means you have demonstrated commitment to something that matters to you.

Why Failure Is Essential To Success

It’s useful to embrace failure because you’ll stay motivated and increase your chances of reaching your aspirations—but your goal should still be to succeed. There’s a subtle but important difference in how you think about what you’re pursuing. Particularly in a competition, it’s better to set a goal to win, rather than setting a goal to sidestep failure.

Begin with Clear Goals

<ul><li>Let go of a sense of fear. Validate that your failure means you’re trying for something that matters to you.</li><li>Focus on learning. If you never fail, you don’t have the opportunity to learn as deeply because you’ve succeeded, patted yourself on the back, and kept moving. </li><li>Feel the pain. Rather than avoiding the sting of a negative performance evaluation or ignoring the pain of losing your job, reflect on how it feels and how you can learn and improve for the next time.</li><li>Be positive. You can also use failure to an advantage by managing your own thought processes. </li></ul>

Make Friends With Failure 

Avoiding rejections protects our ego, but it also means we cheat ourselves out of growth.


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You must stop protecting yourself from professional failure

Break what you want to learn into smaller, manageable pieces. Let’s say you want to bake your own bread. It’s a multi-step process that includes making dough, letting it rise, punching it down, shaping it into a loaf, and baking it in the oven. You’ll start by identifying the different tools and skills behind each step.Or, if you choose yoga as your new hobby, begin at home with a video that shows you the basic poses and breathing techniques — and then go try a class.

1. Break down a skill into its components.

Get three to five resources about what it is you’re trying to learn. It could be books, it could be DVDs, it could be anything, but don’t use those as a way to procrastinate. After all, you won’t learn how to bake bread or do yoga unless you break out the flour or yoga mat and do something.Set a limit on the number of resources you’re consulting — there’s no need to buy every book or watch every YouTube video on the subject; there’s time to do that later — and jump in.

2. Learn enough to know when you’re making a mistake.

This may require stowing away your electronic devices while you tackle your hobby. Or get creative and combine your favorite distraction with your new activity. In a <a href="https://www.tedxpenn.com/">TEDxPenn </a> talk, behavioral scientist <a href="http://www.katherinemilkman.com/">Katherine Milkman </a> advocates a technique called<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=zaf3yQ4OLdw"> “temptation bundling” </a>: pairing something you know you love to do with something you’re trying to get yourself to do. Turn on your favorite podcast while you bake, or you could turn your weekly coffee with a friend into a weekly at-home yoga session with the two of you.

3. Remove any and all barriers to practice.

To overcome the “frustration barrier” — that period in the beginning when you’re painfully incompetent and you know it — you must commit to sticking with your new activity for at least 20 hours. By that point, you will be astounded at how good you are.

4. Practice for at least 20 hours.

Writer Josh Kaufman, author of The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything…Fast and The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, has figured out why so many of us get stopped in our tracks during this early learning period. He has a solution to tackle the problem.

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Problem Solving

Don’t have 10,000 hours to learn something new? That’s fine — all you need is 20.

While I spend a decent amount of time trying to memorize various things <a href="https://www.mickmel.com/some-tweaks-to-my-daily-learning/">using tools like Anki</a>, for the most part rote memorization is unnecessary. Learning systems and frameworks for understanding are vitally important, but for most everything else you can just look it up when you need it.

It’s an open book test

Similar to the “you won’t be carrying around a calculator in your pocket when you’re an adult” that many of us heard in school 20 years ago, they could have also said “you won’t be carrying around the entirely of the world’s knowledge in your pocket” and they’d have been wrong about that too.Of course, finding that knowledge can be tough as times, as the ability to use tools like Google is a skill. It’s a skill we can all learn, but it’s a skill nonetheless.

In your pocket

“In the real world, the tests are all open book, and your success is inexorably determined by the lessons you glean from the free market.”

Learn to search efficiently, learn the frameworks that dominate your industry, then learn lessons along the way and you’ll find yourself doing very well.

While I spend a decent amount of time trying to memorize various things using tools like Anki, for the most part rote memorization is unnecessary. Learning systems and frameworks for understanding are vitally important, but for most everything else you can just look it up when you need it. Similar…

It's an open book test

The team has worked on several performance improvements & visual tweaks.<ul><li>Faster loading, smoother animations: the app starts and loads faster, and the overall performance was improved.</li><li>Know when there is new content: whenever your friends post something new or new content is available - a small red dot will appear next to the Following and Discover menu entries</li><li>Tidying up: we've when with care over the look of the app and made sure that everything looks good and in the right place, tidying up the whole look and feel.</li></ul>❤️ from the Deepstash team

10.2.0 - Overview

The team has worked on several performance improvements & visual tweaks.

10.2.0 - Fast & Tidy

<ul><li>The time spent in this world is short. Every breath is a step closer to death</li><li>The time we're held in our graves is long</li><li>Happiness is only achieved by going against your lusts and desires.</li><li>Allah is the source of All Help</li></ul>

Don't follow your lusts and desires, Time is limited. 

<ol><li>See the sky how perfectly it is laid out. See your own body, how perfectly it is made.</li><li>Understand that every created thing has a creator, every construction has a maker.</li><li>Contemplate on the proofs of the truthfulness of the Prophet Muhammed ﷺ</li><li>Once you understand the above, Submit to the sacred law. Be a believer in Allah and fulfil your obligatory and voluntary deeds towards him. Be a Muslim.</li></ol>

Understand the Existence of Allah and follow sacred law

<ul><li>As a six-year-old, his intellect was much higher than that of older men.</li><li>He used to play less on roads and used to attend gatherings in the masjid.</li><li>He'd memorize Ahadeeth's (texts) from Prophet Muhammed's ﷺ life.</li><li>He was inspired to abandon the vanities of the world and began constant fasting and reduced his food intake to very little.</li><li>Due to his persistence and hunger in seeking knowledge, Allah blessed him and protected his honour and granted him the ability to write and memorize quickly.</li></ul>

Ibn Al Qayyim (R)'s Childhood life

<ul><li>Water your tree while there's still some moisture left in it. Seek forgiveness for the time that you've wasted in the past. Perform good deeds for the future.</li><li>Try to enact every single virtuous deed and cry out for missing a single one as our righteous salaf (predecessors) used to do.</li><li>Days consists of hours and hours are made up of breaths you take. Every Breath is a treasure chest. Don't let any breath go wasted without doing a beneficial deed. You don't want to find any empty treasure on the day of Judgement.</li></ul>

Regret the past, Work on the future

Rabia Al Adawiyyah, One of the righteous salaf used to stay up the whole night worshipping Allah and when dawn came, she'd lay down for a bit and then get up frightened, saying to herself"Sleep in the grave is long"

Sleep in the grave is long

<ol><li>Paradise and Hellfire = Eternal</li><li>Day of judgement = 50,000 Years long</li><li>Time spent in the grave = Very long</li><li>Time spent in this world = Say 60 years out of which about 30 hours is spent in sleep, 15 or so is spent in childhood and remaining is spent chasing after desires, food and money.</li></ol>Is this the price of eternal life? What is for you to buy with it?

The Price of Eternal Life?

<ul><li>Wake up for Fajr reciting Dhikr</li><li>Don't Converse about worldly matters</li><li>Pray Fajr Sunnah</li><li>Stand for Fajr Prayer right side of the Imam</li><li>Remain Seated and Recite Adhkaar after Salah</li><li>Pray Salat Al Awwabeen or Salat Al Dhuha after Sunrise.</li><li>Seeking sincere Knowledge is Better than Voluntary prayers and reciting Quran, but need to maintain a balance.</li><li>Practice Isolation and avoid bad companionship</li></ul>

Morning Routine of a Muslim

<ul><li>Spread Knowledge, Dont expect anything from people. Live Honorably</li><li>3 Things a student of Knowledge needs - Long life, Free Hands (Doesn't busy himself with work and is content with little) and Intelligence.</li><li>When Fear of Allah is REAL, You shall see all good. Store Good deeds as much as you can. Remember Story or Yunus Ra, Story of Firawn and Story of 3 People Stuck in Cave</li></ul>

Spread knowledge, Fear Allah

<ul><li>There are very few who combine complete knowledge with complete action. Aim to be PERFECT.</li><li>According to Ibn Al Qayyim, Sa'd ibn Al Musayyib, Hasan Al Basri, Sufyan At Thawri, and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (Ra) were the most perfect of the Tabi's in implementing their knowledge.</li></ul>

Combining Complete Knowledge + Complete Action

Key points from the book of Imam Ibn Al Qayyim Al Jawzi Rahimahullah who provides sincere counsel to the seekers of sacred knowledge, while advising his son Abul Qasim.

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Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Jawzī

Ashraf Ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥīm

Sincere Counsel to the Students of Sacred Knowledge

Your presentation in your target langauge is coming soon and you don't know excatly how to improve your pronunciation and talk without any breaks? Here are my tips! :)

Developing Clear Speaking Skills & Improving Your Pronunciation

We all know how important is English these days, so the ability to speak it well will open many doors for your career and social life. That’s why we need to focus on our learning goals and achieve them as well.

1. INTRO

How can we develop our speaking skills? The first thing is, that we need to build a strong foundation. That means that we need to expand our vocabulary in order to express ourselves fluently in English. And what I mean by that? I mean that we need to learn new words every day - 10 per day or 15, it can also be less. We can use for example YouTube and different language apps. It is also important to lean all those words that we’ve learned in phrases and sentences (to link them together, to use some functional expressions).

2. DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS

And that also applies for sounds. We put two sounds together, make them disappear or even change the sound for a better flow. The flow is a secret! With the flow we come to better speaking skills.

2.1. Sounds 

All that is connected with stressing of words as well, which is another important thing to keep in mind. There are stressed / unstressed syllables in a word and stressed / unstressed words in a sentence.

2.2. Stressing Of Words 

If the person is not sure where to put a stress, the best way to find out is to look up in the dictionary. If we want to sound even more “professional”, I suggest you to use contractions. Contractions are shortened forms of two words.

2.3. Contractions

While we are learning how to speak a language, we should also pay attention on how native speakers talk. They talk with rhythm, which is the overall result of the things that I mentioned on the top of this blog post – the result of linking, stress and contractions.

2.4. Rhythm

Another tip is, that we can make ourselves more understood by simply training our mouth muscles with different word games, so that we can produce the sounds of English properly. More fun strategy for developing speaking skills is participation. Participation in public speaking events in university or theaters will bring you a lot of new experiences (for instance: TED Talk).

2.5. Training Of Mouth Muscles And Participation

After all that said, we come to more serious problem. The biggest problem of English or any other language, is that we might know a lot of words, we’ve learned all the vocabulary, but we still pronounce the words wrong and because of that, we'll not be understood, then there’s very little point of learning all those words. Some of us speak another language (native language) and our mouth and tongue are trained in a different way. They are trained to make the sounds of that language and not of English for example.

3. PRONUNCIATION 

A lot of people make mistakes while speaking, and the main reason is their speed of speaking. I personally have (sometimes) the same problem. When we talk too fast, we swallow the words that are not supposed to be swallowed. We should pay attention on how our month is moving and making sure that we pronounce every single sound in each word. I learned that in Linguistics class with IPA table (I'll explain IPA for you in my other blog post). We can first talk slowly and then after some practice, faster.

3.1. Focus On Articulation

Ue online dictionaries (as I already mentioned) and their speakers to know how to pronounce certain word in every accent.

3.2. Use Of Dictionaries 

We can practice English with repeating the words over and over again. Repetition!We cannot expect to improve our pronunciation or speaking skills, if we only say a word once. And the best exercise for this is a game called Tongue Twisters. (training our mouth muscles).

3.3. Repetition

We can also practice our pronunciation by listening to the videos on YouTube with subtitles and try to imitate a native speakers, speak out loud and record ourselves. After recording we can compare our recording and the original.

3.4. Listening Comprehension + Recording 

Idntify your weaknesses! We can spend our time by focusing on which English sounds are the most difficult for us personally and write them down. Then the other step is to type in google “Tongue Twisters” and search for the list with a lot of those sounds and practice.

3.5. Identifying Our Weaknesses

With a lot of practice you’ll improve your pronunciation and develop your speaking skills, plus you'll get more confident. Remember, it is important to build English speaking confidence. After a while, you’ll completely rid yourself of any speaking fear, building a strong foundation in the language.

Thank you so much for reading till the end, my lovely people! I hope my post will help you with your studies. Good luck and see you in my next post! Anja

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