Today's Copyeditors Need More Than Good Grammar, a Gimlet Eye, and a Sharp Pencil.
They need to know how copyediting fits into the desktop publishing process. They need to know about the promise and pitfalls of electronic editing for improved workflow, personal efficiency, and quality control. And they need to know what the contemporary publishing workplace expects of them.
And all of that holds true for aspiring, new, and knowledgeable copyeditors (as well as project managers, production editors, and others who don't have the title, just the copyediting responsibilities).
Advice and examples illustrate how to mark copy and apply the rules, and 31 exercises and answer keys cover all the basics-
- Subject-verb agreement
- Pronoun-antecedent agreement
- Active and passive voice
- Parallelism
- Misplaced modifiers
- Punctuation
- Reducing jargon, wordiness, and redundancy
- Editing citations and references
- Editing tables and graphics-and more!