SciEditor—Adrienne Montgomerie

@scieditor.ca

912 Followers 492 Following

Awesomer of hard words, teacher of tech and editors, sea-kayaker, SciEditor.ca, eiw365.com

A small clip of a spreadsheet showing columns labelled Sentence and Word Count, with values 33, 30, 28, and 27 showing.
An app screenshot showing perfect scores for sleep duration, bedtime, and interruptions.
A small fully tiled room with a toilet, several faucets, a large bucket, shower head and a small water heater mounted high on one wall
Square block graph comparing standard time to read V proofread V copyedit, in words per hour.
A place summary from a weather app showing current conditions in India, British Columbia, and Ontario.
Sticky-note labelling a file folder "2027"
Map shading regions with time zones on the 30 & 45 of the hour: India, (parts of) Australia and New Zealand, Newfoundland (province), Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Nepal, French Polynesia (Marquesas Islands).
Email message header showing placeholder code instead of a working email address.
Yellow book cover with drawing of a masked person drawing back to hurl a bouquet of flowers.
Screenshot of Word's revision count (2224!) showing 877 insertions, 681 deletions, 28 moves & 120 comments.
Screenshot of Options tab showing start and stop time fields.
Screenshot of Word's grammar suggestion to change "what hopes do you have…" to "what hopes to do you have".
A black & grey tabby peers too close into the camera, blocking the woman facing down into the shot
Line graph of purchases by Canadian book buyers (2019 to 2024) comparing (top to bottom) paperback (fluctuating between 45% & 55%), hardcover (steady 20% range), e-book (high teens dipping to 10% at end) and audiobook (steady 8%).
Like count numbered 404
Tight clamshell plastic packaging on a pair of scissors
Old-style mic standing in a 3D musical note, by fernandozhiminaicela via Pixabay
Monochrome AI drawing of a robot looking at manuscript pages laid on a desk.
Paragraph showing the impact factor & number of citations growing from 26% to 48% to 63% then 74% more as the 'reading ease' increases.
Tall, dead tree with 3/4 of its base missing.
A "month/day" instructions now appear under the "day" field.
Table of rarity definitions: Rare is under 1/1650 or 0.0606% in the US (Herder 2017). Rare is under 1/20.00 or 0.05% in Europe (Ferreira 2019). Extremely rare or ultra-rare is under 1/50,000 (Hughes 2005). Hyper-rare is under 1/108 or 0.000001% (Smith 2022).
Bar graph from link.
My MS Word privacy settings now have an option to turn ON "connected experiences" which scrape your files to train it's AI. Your Word version may differ.