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Welcome to the 19th annual American Copy Editors Society national conference in Pittsburgh March 26-28, 2015. (Photo by Jeremy Davis.)

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Friday, March 27 • 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Niggles, Nudges and Uh-Oh Sensors: The Intuitive Art of Catching Errors

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Part of being a good copy editor is having a finely calibrated sense of when something seems "off." That uh-oh sensor might be triggered by institutional knowledge, long familiarity with a region or a beat, personal knowledge from a hobby, persistent curiosity, something unidentifiable or just plain luck. We'll talk about errors we've caught through the prompting of a nudge, ones we've missed, how to develop and strengthen that editor's intuition, and how to find answers and fact-check without spending too much time going down the rabbit hole.
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Laura Brown

Copy editor, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Laura Brown is a copy editor and an occasional writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Her writing has appeared in Slate, the Iowa Review, Everyday Poems, The Curator, Art House America and elsewhere. She is the author of "Everything That Makes You Mom: A Bouquet of Memories" and... Read More →

Friday March 27, 2015 3:15pm - 4:15pm EDT
Ballroom 4
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