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The Copyeditor's Workbook

Name: The Copyeditor's Workbook
Author: Erika Buky,Marilyn Schwartz,Amy Einsohn

Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment

Erika Buky,

Marilyn Schwartz,

Amy Einsohn,

384 pages
English
PDF
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - PDF

The Copyeditor's Workbook

Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment

Erika Buky,

Marilyn Schwartz,

Amy Einsohn,

About this book

Put your editing skills into practice with this new companion to the handbook on every copyeditor's desk.

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 Benefits

Workbook challenges editors to build their skills and to use new tools.
Exercises varyand 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 onlineexercises available for download.

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