Directory: Editing

These notes are a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage I put together for my classes. Nothing here is carved in stone, and many comments are matters of personal preference — feel free to psychoanalyze me by examining my particular hangups and bêtes noires

The "Technical Editing" category on the EServer Technical Communication Library contains articles and resources on editing.

Includes Intensive Review of Grammar, Advanced Grammar Roundtable, the Style Summit, and many other classes on editing.

This article discusses the editing of modular documentation, and what the editor's role is in such an environment. (From the proceedings of the STC 55th Annual Conference - Technical Communication Summit.)

This classic text by Mary Fran Buehler and Robert Van Buren is the basis for most other levels of edit systems that editors create.

This new edition has been revised and redesigned to provide an up-to-date and clearly presented source of information for editors and for all those involved in the process of preparing typescripts and illustrations for printing and publication. The copyeditor is shown as an essential link between the authors and those who work on the actual production of the publication.

Blog of Mike Billings, an assistant city editor at a San Francisco newspaper. "You can talk about commas here without fear of scorn or looks of confusion."

Guidelines for and exercises in revising and editing writing in science and technology, business, and the social sciences. Principles covered include development, organization, style, mechanics, and citing sources. Each chapter contains a short description of a principle...

If you're new to onscreen editing, "Effective Onscreen Editing" by Geoff Hart will ease your transition from paper; if you've already made the move, you'll learn proven tips and tricks to maximize your productivity and effectiveness.

Formerly "Substance & Style: Instruction and Practice in Copyediting," this updated version of EEI Press's bestseller includes: a new chapter on the basics of electronic editing, not found in any similar guide; an updated matrix showing how different styles affect your editing; an annotated editor's checklist that can help you assign the correct level of effort; access to copyediting resources and exercises on the EEI Press Web site; new insights into the challenges facing contemporary copyeditors; and a smaller, more convenient trim size.