The Copyeditor's Workbook : Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment / Erika Buky, Marilyn Schwartz, Amy Einsohn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buky, Erika, Author.

Einsohn, Amy, Author.

Schwartz, Marilyn, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copy editing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Copy editing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Copyeditor's Workbook-a companion to the indispensable Copyeditor's Handbook, now in its fourth edition-offers comprehensive and practical training for both aspiring and experienced copyeditors. Exercises of increasing difficulty and length, covering a range of subjects, enable you to advance in skill and confidence. Detailed answer keys offer a grounding in editorial basics, appropriate usage choices for different contexts and audiences, and advice on communicating effectively with authors and clients. The exercises provide an extensive workout in the knowledge and skills required of contemporary editors.Features and benefitsWorkbook challenges editors to build their skills and to use new tools.Exercises vary and increase in difficulty and length, allowing users to advance along the way.Answer keys illustrate several techniques for marking copy, including marking PDFs and hand marking hard copy.Book includes access to online exercises available for download.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Exercises

PART 1. THE ABCs OF COPYEDITING

1. WHAT COPYEDITORS DO

2. BASIC PROCEDURES

3. REFERENCE BOOKS AND RESOURCES

PART 2. EDITORIAL STYLE

4. PUNCTUATION

5. SPELLING AND HYPHENATION

6. CAPITALIZATION AND THE TREATMENT OF NAMES

7. NUMBERS AND NUMERALS

8. QUOTATIONS

9. ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS

10. TABLES, GRAPHS, AND ART

11. REFERENCES

12. FRONT AND BACK MATTER

13. MARKUP

PART 3. LANGUAGE EDITING

14. GRAMMAR AND USAGE: PRINCIPLES AND PITFALLS

15. BEYOND GRAMMAR

Answer Keys

Appendix: Manual Copyediting Symbols

Selected Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

9780520967519

0520967518

OCLC:

1101173436