Category Archives: Ask TWEED
“Behind the Tweed Curtain”: The Copyediting.com Interview
Copyediting.com (the current incarnation of the longstanding industry newsletter Copyediting) invited me to introduce the world of scholarly and dissertation editing. Of course, I agreed. Today, the interview was posted, and the phrase “behind the tweed curtain” was born! (Copyediting’s … Continue reading
Ask TWEED: Is Citing Online Journal Databases Necessary?
Dear TWEED Editing: I have a question for you, Mistress Tweed. My students informed me recently that MLA requires that bibliographic citations obtained through a database require that the database be included in the citation. So their citations end up … Continue reading
Ask TWEED: How Do I Cite DVD Bonus Features?
Dear TWEED Editing: My roommate is doing a paper on a film and wants to quote the director from the director’s commentary. Do you have a website recommendation that would explain how one could properly format that in their ‘Works … Continue reading
