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Item specifics
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- Brand
- Unbranded
- Book Title
- Editing Made Easy: Simple Rules for Effective Writing
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780942679366
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Publication Name
- Editing Made Easy : Simple Rules for Effective Writing
- Publisher
- Upper Access, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Editing & Proofreading, General, Rhetoric
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Upper Access, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0942679369
ISBN-13
9780942679366
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113143757
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Editing Made Easy : Simple Rules for Effective Writing
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Editing & Proofreading, General, Rhetoric
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-003412
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Longtime newspaper editor Kaplan offers no-frills advice to self-editors. He stresses the value of writers who know how to edit their own work. His approach is similar to Bruce Ross-Larson's Edit Yourself. In 37 short chapters, Kaplan covers most thorny writing difficulties, such as split infinitives, tautologies, and misplaced modifiers. This is a book with lots of lists and white space: it would seem just as well suited to use in a digital format as in the traditional print version. The book's portability and its low price make it especially useful for college students and bloggers. VERDICT This affordable, bare-bones guide will appeal to writers (and others who have to write) - especially those who like referring to a handy list of do's and don'ts.
Dewey Decimal
808.02/7
Table Of Content
Contents 1. Why Learn editing? 2. Lean and clean 3. The golden Rules 4. Ruthless people 5. Be active 6. Split personalities 7. Time for action 8. Small and pesky 9. Nuisance value 10. Is that so? 11. Every which way 12. Short is beautiful 13. Briefly speaking 14. Pronouns 15. Feeling single, seeing plural 16. Collective nouns 17. Clichés 18. The future that is to come 19. Stating the obvious 20. There, there 21. Putting on the style 22. Punctuation 23. Contractions 24. To quote or not to quote 25. Tricky, tricky 26. The plurals trap 27. Under a spell 28. Oops 29. If only 30. Now, see here 31. Kid stuff 32. Former, latter, last 33. Get to the point 34. Heads, you win 35. Editing checklist 36. Hot tips 37. And finally 38. Resources Index
Synopsis
An earlier version of Editing Made Easy , published in Bruce Kaplan's native Australia, has become a best-selling resource for writers in much or the English-speaking world. Because of the different spellings and conventions of American English, it has been unavailable here--until now. The new book is thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and Americanized. It maintains the attractions of the original--friendly, easy-to-understand rules for improved writing. It's a quick read, and an easy reference for anybody who wants to communicate clearly with American English. The book is non-technical in its approach. It doesn't cover grammatical terms such as present perfect progressive or correlative conjunctions . It boils grammar and style into a few simple rules that will serve you well whether you are a journalist, a student, a novelist, a business executive, a blogger, or anybody else who would like to make effective use of written language., As the title states, this book is designed to be easy to use for all writers. It offers straightforward, practical guidelines for editing, without getting into the weeds of advanced English grammar. You will find no loftier technical grammatical terms here, such as present perfect progressive, correlative conjunctions, imperative mood or interrogative adjective. However, much of the advice in this book is not to be written in stone. English is a flexible language, and writing a creative calling. As you will see, there are many acceptable ways for writers to express themselves. What you will find in this book is: --How to avoid the most common errors of grammar and spelling. --How to spot typographical and factual errors. --Understanding the styles of print and online media. --How to make your writing more exciting and dynamic. --And improving your odds of having your work published. The goal of this book is simple--to put the odds on the writers' side; to increase your chances of being published or finding success as a reporter, feature writer, novelist, freelance writer, blogger, Web developer, Web editor, communications consultant, advertising copywriter, speechwriter or public relations consultant--in fact, anything involving the written word.
LC Classification Number
PN162.K26 2012
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