Amy Einsohn,Marilyn Schwartz
Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications
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The Copyeditors Handbook is a comprehensive and indispensable resource for copyeditors, offering updated advice from language authorities, usage guides, and style manuals. It covers the latest trends in copyediting, such as preparing text for digital formats, using new technologies, and addressing global audiences. The fourth edition also includes an extensive annotated list of editorial tools and references and light entertainment for language lovers.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 568 pages
Publication date: 14 May 2019
Publisher: University of California Press
The new and updated edition of the handbook that should be on every copy editor's desk is a must-have resource for both new editors and experienced hands looking 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 recognizes the seismic shifts in twenty-first-century copyediting, including preparing text for digital formats, utilizing 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 also includes an extensive annotated list of editorial tools and references, as well as 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 on 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 Copyeditors Workbook: Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment, the essential new companion to the handbook.
Weight: 984g
Dimension: 254 x 180 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520286726
Edition number: 4 ed
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