Directory: Editing

This book(by Gretchen Hargis, Michelle Carey, Ann Kilty Hernandez, Polly Hughes, Deirdre Longo, Shannon Rouiller, Elizabeth Wilde) presents a much needed approach to quality technical communication and a working plan for achieving quality. The examples are excellent and are easy to use and adapt. The editorial advice is simple and clear enough for tech writers who did not major in English or journalism. It is most worthy of a text in university programs, but it is more valuable to experienced writers, editors and managers concerned with raising the quality of their publications. The main difference between this and other books is that in each of the first nine chapters, one quality characteristic is presented that you can apply to your writing project to make technical information easy to use, easy to understand and easy to find. There are checklists at the end of each chapter for review and a Quality checklist in the appendix covering all of the characteristics. The book shows original text and revision text so that you can actually browse the book and see the differences applied. This is another excellent feature that should catch a purchaser's eye.

"New Perspectives on Technical Editing" provides readers with a rich picture of a thriving discipline. Its 10 chapters are written by various experts in the field, each of whom looks at technical editing from a distinct vantage point, setting challenging questions and offering authoritative recommendations based on experience and research.

or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself. ach year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online . Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling...

In the first part of this useful book, the author (Bruce Clifford Ross-Larson) shows how to solve common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize common problems of writing.

Direct from the trenches, here's the practical guidance technical editors can use to apply editing principles under absurdly tight deadlines and constantly changing product specs, tips and tricks for editing common constructs in technical writing, and when to bend the rules to avoid technical ambiguity.

This market-leading text by Carolyn D. Rude has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent changes in technology, workplace practices and the global marketplace. The book progresses from concepts and basic copyediting to comprehensive editing, management and production issues. Coverage now includes a new chapter on client projects.

Grammar web site that includes detailed definitions of common grammar terms, exercises to test your grammar knowledge here, handouts that accompany the interactive exercises, presentations, and useful tips & rules.

A Style Guide for EE 333T by Dr. David F. Beer.

Within this post there are links to copy editing marks, etc, but just the reminder that old-school hardcopy markup can actually be better than the new-fangled technology of revision tracking.

Your job title may or may not be “copyeditor,” but copyediting is what you do: it’s your job to make sure that the documents and publications you work on are clear and accurate--that no errors of fact, grammar, punctuation, or style get in the way of the intended message.