The Copyeditor’s Workbook: Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment

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The Copyeditor's Workbook—a companion to the indispensable Copyeditor's Handbook, now in its fourth edition-offers comprehensive and practical training for both aspiring and experienced copyeditors. Exercises of increasing difficulty and length, covering a range of subjects, enable you to advance in skill and confidence. Detailed answer keys offer a grounding in editorial basics, appropriate usage choices for different contexts and audiences, and advice on communicating effectively with authors and clients. The exercises provide an extensive workout in the knowledge and skills required of contemporary editors. Features and benefits Workbook challenges editors to build their skills and to use new tools. Exercises vary and increase in difficulty and length, allowing users to advance along the way. Answer keys illustrate several techniques for marking copy, including marking PDFs and hand marking hard copy. Book includes access to online exercises available for download. Contents Preface List of Abbreviations Exercises Part 1. The ABCs of Copyediting 1. What Copyeditors Do 2. Basic Procedures 3. Reference Books and Resources Part 2. Editorial Style 4. Punctuation 5. Spelling and Hyphenation 6. Capitalization and the Treatment of Names 7. Numbers and Numerals 8. Quotations 9. Abbreviations and Symbols 10. Tables, Graphs, and Art 11. References 12. Front and Back Matter 13. Markup Part 3. Language Editing 14. Grammar and Usage: Principles and Pitfalls 15. Beyond Grammar Answer Keys Appendix: Manual Copyediting Symbols Selected Bibliography