The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys
10 best books like The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys (Amy Einsohn): How It Feels to Float, Life on Mars, Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies, Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish, The Chicago Manual of Style, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing (Essential Resource Library) (Essential Resource Library), Garner's Modern American Usage, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself), What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
| Author | Helena Fox |
| ISBN | 0525554297 |
Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, who loves her so hard, and who shouldn't be here but is. So Biz doesn't tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace...
| Author | Tracy K. Smith |
| ISBN | 1555975844 |
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk?
—from...
Stein on Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
| Author | Sol Stein |
| ISBN | 0312254210 |
Stein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, "This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how...
Plot & Structure: Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers from Start to Finish
Craft an Engaging Plot
How does plot influence story structure? What's the difference between plotting for commercial and literary fiction? How do you revise a plot or structure that's gone off course?
With "Write Great Fiction: Plot & Structure," you'll discover the answers...
| Author | University of Chicago Press |
| ISBN | 0226104036 |
The 15th edition of
The Chicago Manual of Style
has been superseded by the 17th edition.
In the 1890s, a proofreader at the University of Chicago Press prepared a single sheet of typographic fundamentals intended as a guide for the University community. That sheet grew into a pamphlet,...
| Author | Joseph Gibaldi |
| ISBN | 0873529863 |
Widely adopted by universities, colleges, and secondary schools, the MLA Handbook gives step-by-step advice on every aspect of writing research papers, from selecting a topic to submitting the completed paper. For over half a century, the MLA Handbook is the guide millions of writers have relied...
| Author | Thomas S. Kane |
| ISBN | 0425176401 |
For all intents and purposes, The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing (Essential Resource Library) is a reference book that is meant to be read. That is, however assuming that the areas of short non-fiction are the areas you're writing about.
The book's main purpose is obviously to inform the...
| Author | Bryan A. Garner |
| ISBN | 0195161912 |
The first edition of Garner's Modern American Usage established Bryan Garner as "an American equivalent of Fowler" (Library Journal). With more than 23,500 copies sold, this witty, accessible, and engaging book has become the new classic reference work praised by professional copyeditors as well...
| Author | Carol Fisher Saller |
| ISBN | 0226734250 |
Each year writers and editors submit over three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some simply hilarious—and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor...
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing
Editing is an invisible art where the very best work goes undetected. Editors strive to create books that are enlightening, seamless, and pleasurable to read, all while giving credit to the author. This makes it all the more difficult to truly understand the range of roles they inhabit while shepherding...
The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage
| Author | Mark Lester |
| ISBN | 0071441336 |
I was not at all enthusiastic at first (seriously? since when do we call everything from numerals to articles to demonstratives "adjectives"?!?!?). However, once I got over the authors' classifications (which made me feel like I must have studied linguistics on another planet, or in another time...
