Edition |
2nd ed., rev. and expanded. |
Description |
1 online resource (xv, 153 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-140) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction; 1. Basics; THE COPYEDITOR'S JOB; THE COPYEDITOR'S STANCE; KINDS OF EDITORS; THE VALUE OF COPYEDITING; 2. Legal and Contractual Aspects of Publishing; MUTUAL DEPENDENCY; LIBEL; INDISCRETION (BIAS); COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSIONS; DESIGN; Illustrations; Jackets; OTHER CONTRACTUAL SPECIFICS; Titles; Proofs and AAs; Index; 3. Types of Editing; BOOKS; Trade Books; Scholarly Books; Textbooks; Scientific and Professional Books; REFERENCE VOLUMES; Dictionaries of the English Language; Other Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; MISCELLANEOUS; JOURNALS; 4. The Editor's Dilemma. |
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PERSONAL RELATIONSPraise; Differences of Opinion; DIFFICULT MANUSCRIPTS; Editors' Ploys; The Confident Bad Writer; THE ROLE OF APPRECIATION; 5. Editorial Procedures; BASICS; Choices; Generic Coding; PRELIMINARIES; Chapter Titles and Headings; Illustrative Material; Notes and Bibliography or References; Front Matter; COPYEDITING; Errors, Ambiguities, Inconsistencies; Style of Writing; STYLE SHEET; Capital Letters; Italics; Hyphens; SPECIAL PROBLEMS; CORRECTIONS; FINISHING UP; Running Heads; Spine Copy; Review; EDITOR TO AUTHOR; 6. Computer Technology; THE PUBLISHING HOUSE; COMPUTER AIDS. |
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9. Notes, Refrences, BibliographiesNUMBERED NOTES; Content and Placement; Shortening; PARENTHETICAL REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHIES (AND NOTES); REFERENCES (AND PARENTHETICAL CITATIONS); PAGE AND VOLUME NUMBERS; ALPHABETIZATION; SUMMARY ON DOCUMENTATION; BASIC SERVICEABLE FORMS OF NOTATION AND REFERENCES; 10. Special Editing Problems; AUTHORS' FOIBLES; Faulty Research; Stubborn Author; Venerable Author; Problem Prefaces and Introductions; SPECIAL CASES; Lectures to Books; Multiple Authorship; Transliteration; Translations; SCHOLARSHIP; Hebrew and Other Scripts; Authoritative Sources and Accuracy. |
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Final Checking11. Proofs and Index; PROOFS; INDEX; Compiling an Index; Editing an Index; FINALE; 12. Job Satisfaction; OPPORTUNITIES; REWARDS; Annotated Bibliography; Appendix; Index. |
Summary |
Now featuring solid advice on computer editing and a new chapter on style, as well as more information on references, bibliographies, indexing, and bias-free writing, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition offers the same wealth of information that prompted William Safire to commend the first edition in The New York Times Magazine. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Copy editing.
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Copy editing. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Title |
Fine art of copy-editing |
Other Form: |
Print version: Stainton, Elsie Myers, 1911- Fine art of copyediting. 2nd ed., rev. and expanded. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002 0231124783 (DLC) 2001028186 |
ISBN |
0231502702 (electronic book) |
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9780231502702 (electronic book) |
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0231124783 |
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0231124791 |
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9780231124799 |
Music No. |
EB00639133 Recorded Books |
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