The Subversive Copy Editor - Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself) by Saller, Carol Fisher;

Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)

Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing S.;

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Publisher University of Chicago Press
Date of Publication 28 May 2009

ISBN 9780226734248
Binding Hardback
No. of pages144 pages
Size 209x135x17 mm
Weight 280 g
Language English

Short description:

Emphasizing carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, this book shows copy editors how to build trust and cooperation. It focuses on serving the reader, even if it means breaking 'rules' along the way. It includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, and organizing computer files.

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Each year readers submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q another speaks to writers directly. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking 'rules' along the way. Saller's own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: 'I mess up all the time', she confesses. 'It's how I know things'. Copy editors, Saller acknowledges, also make trouble for themselves (does any other book have an index entry that says 'terrorists. See copy editors'?).; The book includes helpful sections on e-mail etiquette, work-flow management, and organizing computer files. Saller's emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don'ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q

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