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Pro Tip Tuesday #22: Three more little things to check for consistency

Following on from last week, here are three more little things to pay attention to when you’re preparing to submit a manuscript for publication: 1. Smart quotes vs. straight quotes In your word processor, you probably have the “smart quotes” setting turned on, which produces quotation marks and apostrophes that are usually curved the right…

Pro Tip Tuesday #21: Three little things to check for consistency

When your writing is being prepared for publication, a copyeditor will (hopefully!) catch any formatting mistakes or inconsistencies, but it’s worth making sure that the manuscript you submit is as clean as possible—that allows the copyeditor to focus on other issues, and it should reduce the number of errors that will inevitably slip through. Here…

Pro Tip Tuesday #20: Paragraph indents

In Word, there are two ways to indent the first line of a paragraph: 1) apply first-line indentation in the paragraph settings; 2) hit the tab key. I often see authors using these interchangeably, switching back and forth within the same manuscript. But what you might not have realized is that, while they look the…

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PRODUCTIVITY

Erin’s Weekly Project Tracker

My work life as a freelancer/adjunct isn’t all that different from when I was a grad student – I’m juggling a bunch of different projects and types of work on any given day, my responsibilities range from ten-minute tasks to long-term projects, multiple unrelated people are depending on me to finish things on time, and…

MUSICOLOGY

~greatness~

Checking Twitter between AMS papers yesterday afternoon, I saw a few musicology friends grumbling about critic Anthony Tommasini’s new piece in the New York Times, “The Case for Greatness in Classical Music,” adapted from his new book. I took a minute to read it before running off to another paper, and it annoyed me about as…

CHURCH MUSIC

Hymn Descant: EASTER HYMN

It just figures that this would be the year I decided to Make An Effort and write new hymn descants for Easter! I had just finished arranging the hymns, prelude, and postlude for the little chamber orchestra we usually have when it became clear that we wouldn’t be having an in-person Easter service. I hope…

Christ, My All (for SATB choir and speaker)

Today is the 200th birthday of Fanny J. Crosby, who has been my go-to source of public-domain hymn texts for the past few years, so I figured I would finally share a setting of one of her texts that I wrote for my church choir last year, in the hope that church choirs will be…

New Christmas worship song: “Take Up the Story”

Between finals week and Advent, December is always an especially busy time for me. Last year, I realized after Christmas that I had forgotten to post the new song I wrote for my church, so I figured I would hold off until Advent 2019. You can see where this is going–I spent this month chasing…