The Craft of Editing : a Guide for Managers, Scientists, and Engineers /

The Craft of Editing is about the craft of editing scientific writing. It is designed to help you - and all those who deal with scientific and technical writing by others in universities, government labs, businesses, or engineering firms - become more effective and more efficient at editing the prop...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alley, Michael
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2000.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editing: Where Do You Begin?- When the Pencils Are Blue
  • When the Rules Are Gray
  • Common Types of Edits
  • Reducing the Friction Editing
  • Editing: the Big Picture
  • Appendix: One Hundred Problems of Style
  • Glossary of Editing Terms
  • References
  • Index.