The copyeditor's handbook A guide for book publishing and corporate communications
Book - 2019
"Unstuffy, hip, and often funny, The Copyeditor's Handbook has become an indispensable resource both for new editors and for experienced hands who want to refresh their skills and broaden their understanding of the craft of copyediting. This fourth edition incorporates the latest advice from language authorities, usage guides, and new editions of major style manuals, including The Chicago Manual of Style. It registers the tectonic shifts in twenty-first-century copyediting: preparing text for digital formats, using new technologies, addressing global audiences, complying with plain language mandates, ensuring accessibility, and serving self-publishing authors and authors writing in English as a second language. The new edition als...o adds an extensive annotated list of editorial tools and references and includes a bit of light entertainment for language lovers, such as a brief history of punctuation marks that didn't make the grade, the strange case of razbliuto, and a few Easter eggs awaiting discovery by keen-eyed readers. The fourth edition features updates reflecting the transformation of editorial roles in today's publishing environment, new applications, processes, and protocols for on-screen editing major changes in editorial resources, such as online dictionaries and language corpora, new grammar and usage authorities, online editorial communities, and web-based research tools. When you're ready to test your mettle, pick up The Copyeditor's Workbook: Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment, the essential new companion to the handbook"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Handbooks and manuals
- Published
-
Oakland, California :
University of California Press
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- ,
- Edition
- Fourth edition, revised, updated, and expanded
- Physical Description
- xx,545 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Audience
- 1210L
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780520286726
- Preface to the Fourth Edition
- Preface to the Third Edition
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Part 1. The ABCs of Copyediting
- 1. What Copyeditors Do
- Principal Tasks
- Levels of Copyediting
- The Editorial Process
- Editorial Triage
- Estimates
- One Paragraph, Three Ways
- Professionalism and Ethics
- 2. Basic Procedures
- Skill Sets
- Marking Changes on Hard Copy
- Making Changes On-Screen
- Querying
- Style sheets
- Informal Communications and Transmittal Letters
- Author Review and Manuscript Cleanup
- 3. Reference Books and Resources
- Four Essential Books
- Language Corpora
- On the Bookshelf
- Websites, Email Lists, Discussion Boards, and Blogs
- Part 2. Editorial Style
- 4. Punctuation
- Conventions, Fashions, and Style
- Function 1. Terminal Punctuation
- Function 2. Joining Clauses
- Function 3. Setting Off Phrases
- Function 4. Indicating Omission
- Mark-by-Mark Pitfalls
- Multiple Punctuation
- Eyeballing Every Mark
- Controversial Techniques
- 5. Spelling and Hyphenation
- Improving Your Spelling Skills
- Variant Spellings
- British Spelling
- Homophones
- Foreign Words and Phrases
- Proper Nouns and Adjectives
- Plurals
- Possessives
- One Word or Two?
- Spell-Checkers
- 6. Capitalization and the Treatment of Names
- Personal Names and Titles
- Astronomical Terms and Geographical Names
- Racial and Ethnic Groups
- Names of Institutions and Companies, Trademarks, and Brand Names
- Cyberjargon
- Titles of Works
- Names of Plants and Animals
- 7. Numbers and Numerals
- Words or Numerals?
- Punctuation of Numerals
- Cardinals and Ordinals
- Fractions
- Percentages, Percentage Points, Basis Points, Percentiles, and Portions
- Money
- Time
- Street Numbers and Phone Numbers
- Units of Measurement
- Roman Numerals
- Inclusive Numerals
- Mathematical Signs and Symbols
- Ambiguous Numerical Statements
- Style Sheet Entries
- 8. Quotations
- Misspellings in the Source Document
- Odd Wording in the Source Document
- Run-in and Set-off Quotations
- Editing a Pull Quote
- Punctuation of Quotations
- Syntactical Fit
- Ellipsis Points
- Brackets
- Citing Sources
- 9. Abbreviations and Symbols
- Abbreviations
- Symbols and Signs
- 10. Tables, Graphs, and Art
- Tables
- Graphs
- Art
- Use of "Alt Text"
- 11. References
- Author-Date System
- Reference Note System
- Citation-Sequence System
- Citation of Digital Sources
- 12. Front Matter, Back Matter, and Running Heads
- Front Matter
- Back Matter
- Running Heads (and Running Feet)
- 13. Markup
- Markup of Hard Copy
- Markup On-Screen
- Heads and Subheads
- Lists
- Design Specs
- Part 3. Language Editing
- 14. Grammar and Usage: Principles and Pitfalls
- Whose Grammar?
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Troublesome Verbs
- Split Infinitives
- Subjunctive Mood
- Dangling Participles
- Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
- Garden-Path Sentences
- Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
- Case of Nouns and Pronouns
- Parallel Form
- More Muddled Syntax
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Miscellaneous Bugaboos
- 15. Beyond Grammar
- Organization
- Point of View
- Expository Style
- Plain Language Compliance
- Accessibility
- Global English
- EFL and ESL Editing
- Bias-Free Language
- Publishing Law
- Checklist of Editorial Preferences
- Glossary of Copyediting Terms
- Glossary of Grammar Terms
- Selected Bibliography
- Index