Editing and Revising Text
Published on 1. October 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-0-19-860413-6 (ISBN)
Description
Provides a practical approach to editing and revising for office workers, students and newsletter editors. Whether editing your own work or text written by others, it suggests techniques and approaches, and covers editing content, style, tone, accuracy, brevity and clarity. The book has examples from real articles, essays, letters and reports, and offers checklists throughout.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Illustrations
diagr., num. line drawings
numerous line drawings, boxes and flow diagrams
ISBN-13
978-0-19-860413-6 (9780198604136)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
CONTENTS; 1. WHAT IS EDITING?; 2. The different editing circumstances; 3. Readers and aims; 4. Style guides; 5. First steps; 6. Editing the content; 7. Achieving structural flow; 8. Achieving linguistic flow; 9. Editing the style and tone; 10. Accuracy; 11. Brevity; 12. Clarity; 13. Beyond ABC; 14. How technology can help you; PART B; Checklists; INDEX