Editing is often seen as one item on a list of steps in the writing process—usually put somewhere near the end, and often completely crowded out of writer’s workshop. Too many times daily editing lessons happen in a vacuum, with no relationship to what students are writing.
In Everyday Editing, Jeff Anderson asks teachers to reflect on what sort of message this approach sends to students. Does it tell them that editing and revision are meaningful parts of the writing process, or just a hunt for errors with a 50/50 chance of getting it right—comma or no comma?
If you want to get to grips with film & video editing, this book sets down, in a simple, uncomplicated way, the fundamental knowledge you will need to make a good edit between two shots. Regardless of what you are editing, the problem of learning how to be a good editor remains the same. This book concentrates on where and how an edit is made and teaches you how to answer the simple question: 'What do I need to do in order to make a good edit between two shots?'
Punctuation Matters gives straight answers the queries raised most frequently by practitioners in computing, engineering, medicine and science as they grapple with day-to-day tasks in writing and editing. The advice it offers is based on John Kirkman's long experience of providing courses on writing and editing in academic centers, large companies, research organizations, and government departments, in the UK, Europe and in the USA.
Editing Virginia Woolf: Interpreting the Modernist Text
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This volume covers a wide range of editorial confrontations with Virginia Woolf's writings, touching on almost every genre in which she wrote: fiction, diary, letter, and biography. It describes a variety of editorial practices and deals with current theories informing the critical editing of the prose of this singular 20th-century writer. Essays by distinguished scholar-critics of Virginia Woolf confront a number of contemporary issues in critical editing: the use of pre-print materials, authorial revisions, and the collation of historical texts.
Indispensable Bible for Writing or Editing!,
January 23, 2008
This book covers it all. If you are serious about your writing or the
writing of others, this book is one-stop shopping. After editing for
over twenty years, this book taught me how to not only think like a
writer and editor, but to also think like a business person. It covers
what references are needed and why, how to edit in an organized manner,
and how to maintain consistency and clarity in any document. This book
also covers electronic, PDF, and PowerPoint editing. Online references
are given for quick assistance while in the process of writing or
editing. Also, there's a test included as to focus on what the writer
or editor's weaknesses are. This book is amazingly up-to-date and
covers most needs for the serious wordsmith.