Authors: Amy Einsohn
ISBN-13: 9780520246881, ISBN-10: 0520246888
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Amy Einsohn is a professional editor with twenty-five years of experience in scholarly, trade nonfiction, and corporate publishing. She has taught copyediting classes through the University of California's Extension Program and through Editcetera (a San Francisco Bay Area editorial cooperative) and has also conducted on-site corporate training workshops.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:
"The first three chapters alone are worth the cover price. It's a book that acknowledges an assortment of vexing copyediting questions and offers multiple answers to most of them."Gary Hernandez, Technical Communication
"An excellent textbook to teach the essentials of copyediting. An excellent reference work for workplace writing."Mark Armstrong, Business Communication Quarterly
"Brims with valuable information, good advice, and helpful suggestions for novice copyeditors and experienced practitioners."Alice Levine, The Denver Publishing
Institute
"An indispensable reference tool."Kim Hawley, President, The Chicago Book Clinic
"Thorough, useful, helpful, and smart."Constance Hale, author of Sin and Syntax and Wired Style
"Straightforward, sound advice for beginning or intermediate copyeditors working with pencil or online."Priscilla S. Taylor, The Editorial Eye
"Lays out the copyeditor's obligations with humor, style, and perspective."Walter Pagel, Science Editor
1 | What copyeditors do | 3 |
2 | Basic procedures | 29 |
3 | Reference books and resources | 57 |
4 | Punctuation | 71 |
5 | Spelling and hyphenation | 121 |
6 | Capitalization | 151 |
7 | Numbers and numerals | 171 |
8 | Quotations | 196 |
9 | Abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols | 216 |
10 | Tables, graphs, and art | 242 |
11 | References | 274 |
12 | Front and back matter | 297 |
13 | Typecoding | 309 |
14 | Grammar : principles and pitfalls | 335 |
15 | Beyond grammar | 377 |