The Fine Art of Copyediting

The Fine Art of Copyediting

  • Autor: Stainton, Elsie Myers
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231124782
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231502702
  • Lugar de publicación:  New York , Estados Unidos
  • Año de publicación digital: 2002
  • Mes: Enero
  • Idioma: Ingles
Many stylebooks and manuals explain writing, but before the release ten years ago of Elsie Myers Stainton's The Fine Art of Copyediting, few addressed the practices and problems of editing. This handbook has guided users through the editing process for books and journals, with tips on how to be diplomatic when recommending changes, how to edit notes and bibliographies, how to check proofs, and how to negotiate the ethical, intellectual, and emotional problems characteristic of the editorial profession. 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.

Complete with helpful checklists for the manuscript, proof, and index stages of book production, as well as an excellent bibliography of reference works useful to the copyeditor, The Fine Art of Copyediting, Second Edition is an indispensable desk reference for writers and editors confronting a host of questions each day. Why use the word "people" instead of "persons?" What precautions are necessary for publishers to avoid libel suits? How can an editor win an author's trust? What type fonts facilitate the copyediting process? How does computer editing work? For experienced and novice copyeditors, writers and students, this is the source for detailed, step-by-step guidance to the entire editorial process.
  • 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
    • PERSONAL RELATIONS
      • Praise
      • 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
    • EDITOR ON COMPUTER
    • AUTHOR ON COMPUTER
    • COMPUTER LANGUAGE
    • RESULTS
  • 7. A Concise Manual of Writing Style for Copyeditors
    • GENERAL GUIDELINES
      • Rhetoric
      • Readership
      • Ambiguity
      • Repetition
      • Pretentiousness
    • DETAILS
      • Spelling
      • Capitalization
      • Italics
      • Compound Words and Hyphens
      • British Spelling and Punctuation
    • GRAMMAR AND USAGE
      • Parts of Speech
      • Mistakes in Grammar
      • That and Which
      • Punctuation
      • Abbreviations
      • Cross-References
    • TABLES
    • B I A S - F R E E WRITING
  • 8. The Fine Art
    • SENTENCES
    • PUNCTUATION
    • FIGURES OF SPEECH
      • New Uses for Old Words
    • Metaphors
    • NEW WORDS
    • CHANGING USAGE
  • 9. Notes, Refrences, Bibliographies
    • NUMBERED 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
      • Final Checking
  • 11. Proofs and Index
    • PROOFS
    • INDEX
      • Compiling an Index
      • Editing an Index
    • FINALE
  • 12. Job Satisfaction
    • OPPORTUNITIES
    • REWARDS
  • Annotated Bibliography
  • Appendix
  • Index

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