The Copyeditor's Handbook

A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications

By: Amy Einsohn, Marilyn Schwartz

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Paperback | 14 May 2019 | Edition Number 4

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The new, updated edition of the handbook that should be on every copyeditor’s desk.

Unstuffy, hip, and often funny, The Copyeditor’s Handbook has become an indispensable resource both for new editors and for experienced hands who want 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 registers the tectonic shifts in twenty-first-century copyediting: preparing text for digital formats, using 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 adds an extensive annotated list of editorial tools and references and includes 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 Copyeditor’s Workbook: Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment, the essential new companion to the handbook.

Industry Reviews

"Absolutely required for students in publishing programs, the volume will also be valuable for those working with copyeditors and those interested in becoming freelance editors. . . . Essential." * CHOICE *
"An indispensable classic." * Technical Communications *

"Anyone working in publishing today would do well to pick up and thoroughly imbibe the lessons in The Freelance Editor's Handbook: A Complete Guide to making your business thrive even if she or he has no intention of ever freelancing-that is, if someone hopes to land a "steady" full-time job or keep working at one."

* Springer Nature *

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