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Powerful proofreading skills : tips, techniques and tactics / Debra A. Smith, Helen R. Sutton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Debra, 1952-
- Series:
- Fifty-Minute series.
- Fifty-Minute series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proofreading.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Menlo Park, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ever send out an embarrassing, costly, typo-filled, business letter? Now, this practical book is here to help. Each section contains exercises and activities that strengthen your proofreading skills and eliminate errors and inaccuracies from your documents.
- Contents:
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- PREFACE
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PROOFREADER'S PRETEST
- SECTION I Proofreading for Error-Free Copy
- WHAT IS PROOFREADING?
- SETTING THE STAGE
- GETTING STARTED
- ACHIEVING ERROR-FREE DOCUMENTS
- PROOFREADING NUMBERS AND NAMES
- INCORPORATING PROOFREADERS' MARKS
- HOW TO GIVE PROOFREADING FEEDBACK TO OTHERS
- SECTION II Proofreading for Accuracy
- KNOW YOUR GRAMMAR TERMS
- PROOFREADING FOR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS
- PROOFREADING FOR PUNCTUATION ERRORS
- PROOFREADING FOR SPELLING ERRORS
- PROOFREADING FOR USAGE ERRORS
- PROOFREADING FOR CAPITALIZATION ERRORS
- PROOFREADING FOR NUMBER ERRORS
- SECTION III Summary
- PROOFREADER'S POST TEST
- CREATE YOUR OWN PROOFREADER'S LIBRARY
- SECTION IV Exercise Answers
- RECOMMENDED READING.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 94).
- ISBN:
- 1-4175-2474-X
- OCLC:
- 179158482
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