Editing & Proofreading

Your students will really pay attention when you use Phunny Stuph. Jokes and humorous urban legends make up all 100 proofreading exercises in this useful book. Use the exercises as a class warm-up, or photocopy them to pass out to your students. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599639024Author Steve DunhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Writer's Digest BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

Written by some of the most distinguished literary translators working in English today, these essays offer new and uncommon insights into the understanding and craft of translation. The contributors not only describe the complexity of translating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312254216Author Sol SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Griffin PublishingWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm)...

Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734452402Author Kris SpisakFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Davro PressPublisher Davro PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

So you've just finished writing something? Congratulations! Now revise it. Because revision is about getting from good to better, and it's only finished when you decide to stop. But where to begin? In On Revision, William Germano shows authors how to...

LEARN HOW TO PLOT AND STRUCTURE YOUR CREATIVE WRITING.How to Craft a Great Story takes you step by step through the process of creating a compelling and coherent plot and structure. It covers such basics as the traditional story arcs, and such advanced...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986134715Author Linda S ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Ubiquitous PressPublisher Ubiquitous PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615996001Author Carolyn Howard-JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Modern History PressPublisher Modern History PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927830314Author Nada SobhiFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint K. Steinemann EnterprisesPublisher K. Steinemann EnterprisesWeight(grams)...

Since 1962 Editors on Editing has been an indispensable guide for editors, would-be editors, and especially writers who want to understand the publishing process. Written by America's most distinguished editors, these 38 essays will teach, inform, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607854746Author Patrick BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Maize BooksPublisher Maize BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm * 20mm

This set includes two essential resources for writers and editors: The Copyeditor's Handbook, now in its fourth edition, and The Copyeditor's Workbook, the new companion to the bestselling Handbook. Unstuffy, hip, and often funny, The Copyeditor's...

LEARN HOW TO LIFT YOUR CREATIVE WRITING BY EMPLOYING A GOOD WRITING STYLE.Do you want to write more effectively, correctly and in a manner which is appropriate for this brave new world of text speak and blogging?Whether you are a professional writer, or...

Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides squared...

From an award-winning instructor of medical editing, this is the first guide designed to introduce the field to prospective and early-career medical editors. Medical editing is a thriving and wide-ranging specialty within the editorial profession. Its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732709003Author Dedrie MarieFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Little Nelson PressPublisher Little Nelson PressWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732709010Author Dedrie MarieFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Little Nelson PressPublisher Little Nelson PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Exploring technology, ethics, and culture to unlock digital scholarship's futureFutures of Digital Scholarly Editing navigates the ever-shifting terrain of digital academia, examining practical and ethical considerations as technology continues to evolve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986207810Author Sallianne HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Grasslands PressPublisher Grasslands PressWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986207834Author Sallianne HinesFormat HardbackPage Count 86Imprint Grasslands PressPublisher Grasslands PressWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Most readers, including professional literary academics, spend little time wondering about the state of the texts they are using. Yet the nature and status of texts, and the method of their editing, have profound effects on the ways they can be read...

This collection of essays discusses some of the problems faced when editing women. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf and Katherine Philips.Book InformationISBN 9780708314593Author Anne M. HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint...

This concise, economical pocket guide is a handy reference for finding, evaluating, and citing sources, APA documentation, and avoiding plagiarism.Book InformationISBN 9780136049708Author Mike PringleFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint PearsonPublisher...

The papers in this collection deal with a cultural problem central to the study of the history of exploration: the editing and transmission of the texts in which explorers relate their experiences. The papers chart the transformation of the study of...

This collection of twenty-six essays, written by acknowledged experts in literary studies, surveys the history of scholarly editing, describes the major research in a variety of disciplines, summarizes the resources available to scholars, and analyzes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994219220Author Tahlia NewlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint AIA PublishingPublisher AIA PublishingWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781738825004Author Stephen UllstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Anthimus PressPublisher Anthimus PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838358266Author Stephen CashmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Chartered Institute of Editing and ProofreadingPublisher Chartered Institute of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645262749Author Kathy IdeFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Iron Stream MediaPublisher Iron Stream MediaWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915141149Author Claire BeveridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Chartered Institute of Editing and ProofreadingPublisher Chartered Institute of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915141088Author Claire BaconFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Chartered Institute of Editing and ProofreadingPublisher Chartered Institute of Editing...

In the first part of this useful book, the author shows how to solve common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize common problems of writing. The reader will learn how to recognize words and phrases that should be cut; how to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915141101Author Sophie PlayleFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Chartered Institute of Editing and ProofreadingPublisher Chartered Institute of Editing...

Theorists, scholars, and critics usually consider literary works to be fixed objects, assuming that any variations in the text of a work should be stabilized, reduced, eliminated. John Bryant urges that these variations create valuable records of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627202947Author John E McIntyreFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Apprentice HousePublisher Apprentice HouseWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A field guide to the trade and art of editing, this book pulls back the curtain on the day-to-day responsibilities of a literary magazine editor in their role, and to the specific skills necessary to read, mark-up and transform a piece of writing...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781778289736Author Iva CheungFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Hastily Assembled BooksPublisher Hastily Assembled BooksWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm)...