基本説明
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.
Full 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.
Contents
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