ilość książek w kategorii: 433
Don't Fear the Reaper: Why Every Author Needs an Editor
ISBN: 9780989777353 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You've written a book, so now what? You may be asking yourself:
- Should I hire an editor? - What kind of editor do I need? - How much will professional editing cost? - Where can I find an editor? - What will an editor expect from me? - What can I expect from an editor? Don't Fear the Reaper: Why Every Author Needs an Editor answers these questions and more, while also offering: - Advice on self-editing - How to best prepare your book for an editor - How to make an editor not like you so much - Why patience is key in... You've written a book, so now what? You may be asking yourself:
- Should I hire an editor? - What kind of editor do I need? - How... |
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45,49 zł |
Write Right: A Style Sheet for Everyone
ISBN: 9781505558784 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Good writing is clear, effective, economical, and graceful. This style sheet helps to achieve these goals.
Good writing is clear, effective, economical, and graceful. This style sheet helps to achieve these goals.
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34,10 zł |
Critical Issues Editing Exploration Text
ISBN: 9781442655034 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers in this collection deal with a cultural problem central to the study of the history of exploration: the editing and transmission of the texts in which explorers relate their experiences. The papers chart the transformation of the study of exploration writing from the genres of national epic and scientific reportage to the genre of cultural analysis. As well, they reflect ongoing changes in our ideas about editorial procedures, literary genres, and cultural appropriation. This volume begins with a paper by David Henige, who confronts the classic editorial problems... The papers in this collection deal with a cultural problem central to the study of the history of exploration: the editing and transmission of the ... |
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119,94 zł |
The Art of the Edit: Shaping and Sculpting Your Manuscript
ISBN: 9781508815327 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You've typed The End on your novel manuscript and rejoiced with the Happy Dance. Congratulations Then you take another look and begin banging your head against the desk. Your precious baby isn't ready to send out into the wide world of publishing. Too raw. Too immature. It's time to buckle down and edit, edit, edit. Where do you start and what do you examine and revise in order to buff that sparkle into your wonderful work-er, potentially wonderful work? This little handbook, The Art of the Edit: Shaping and Sculpting Your Novel, offers valuable tools in reaching your goal of a manuscript...
You've typed The End on your novel manuscript and rejoiced with the Happy Dance. Congratulations Then you take another look and begin banging your he...
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27,28 zł |
Watch Your Words: A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age
ISBN: 9781442253421 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalists -- even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web -- trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital skill; the cleaner and clearer the text, the more effective the result. Watch Your Words, now in its fourth edition, is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, usage and Associated Press style. This new edition features a new quality-control guide to writing and editing. The guide covers accuracy and fact-checking; brevity and tightening; clarity; use of quotes and attribution; and basic editing...
Journalists -- even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web -- trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital sk...
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382,70 zł |
Watch Your Words: A Writing and Editing Handbook for the Multimedia Age
ISBN: 9781442253438 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalists -- even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web -- trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital skill; the cleaner and clearer the text, the more effective the result. Watch Your Words, now in its fourth edition, is a brief and accessible handbook for mastering baseline knowledge of punctuation, grammar, usage and Associated Press style. This new edition features a new quality-control guide to writing and editing. The guide covers accuracy and fact-checking; brevity and tightening; clarity; use of quotes and attribution; and basic editing...
Journalists -- even those working simultaneously in print, on air and on the Web -- trade in words. Using language well across platforms is a vital sk...
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164,15 zł |
You Can Say That Again: 750 Redundant Phrases to Think Twice About
ISBN: 9780985820336 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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30,36 zł |
The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know
ISBN: 9781936891351 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,78 zł |
Career as an Editor
ISBN: 9781511995269 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WITH FINGERS DASHING ACROSS THE keyboard, editors can transform mediocre writing into epic prose. They can take a forgettable jumble of words and turn them into literary jewels. Wherever there is good writing - books, magazines, newspapers, websites - there are editors working in the background. For their efforts, editors get no byline at the beginning of the story or credit on the title page. They are never asked to autograph a written piece of work they have helped create. Only rarely will an editor's name appear in the masthead of a newspaper or magazine. Occasionally an editor's name may...
WITH FINGERS DASHING ACROSS THE keyboard, editors can transform mediocre writing into epic prose. They can take a forgettable jumble of words and turn...
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47,81 zł |
Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories, Models and Methods
ISBN: 9781472412119 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides an up-to-date, coherent and comprehensive treatment of digital scholarly editing, organized according to the typical timeline and workflow of the preparation of an edition: from the choice of the object to edit, the editorial work, post-production and publication, the use of the published edition, to long-term issues and the ultimate significance of the published work. The author also examines from a theoretical and methodological point of view the issues and problems that emerge during these stages with the application of computational techniques and methods. Building on...
This book provides an up-to-date, coherent and comprehensive treatment of digital scholarly editing, organized according to the typical timeline and w...
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704,29 zł |
Power Editing For Fiction Writers: Includes the number 1 secret to power up your writing now!
ISBN: 9780990966432 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finished writing your novel? Get ready for EDITING, where your major work begins. This short guide covers everything you need to know to edit your book like a pro, and take your story and your writing from good to POWERFUL Professional editing for a novel is not cheap. But by editing as well as possible yourself, you can drastically reduce, or even eliminate, professional editing costs. Power Editing For Fiction Writers helps you look at every aspect of your writing-from your initial story idea, through the telling of your story, to how you craft your sentences. Now you can feel confident in...
Finished writing your novel? Get ready for EDITING, where your major work begins. This short guide covers everything you need to know to edit your boo...
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68,07 zł |
80 Common Layout Errors to Flag When Proofreading Book Interiors
ISBN: 9780985800857 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS ARE SAYING ABOUT "80 COMMON LAYOUT ERRORS" * GRAPHIC DESIGNER Victoria Vinton (CoyotePressGraphics.com) writes, "This is a great resource. In it you mention so many things that I need to beat clients over the head with because they don't believe me. I'll use your book to validate my advice to clients " * EDITOR AND PROOFREADER Judy Vorfeld (EditingAndWritingServices.com) writes, "This eBook is amazing. I am doing a great deal of formatting these days, and your words resonate with me. I have encountered many of the issues you mention, and plan to buy the book and keep it...
WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS ARE SAYING ABOUT "80 COMMON LAYOUT ERRORS" * GRAPHIC DESIGNER Victoria Vinton (CoyotePressGraphics.com) writes, "This is a grea...
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27,28 zł |
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
ISBN: 9780226240077 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refusing to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling. Saller realized that when these sides squared off, it was often the reader who lost. In her search for practical strategies for keeping the peace, The Subversive Copy Editor was born. Saller's ideas struck a chord, and the little book with big advice quickly became a must-have reference for copy editors everywhere. In this second edition, Saller adds new chapters, on...
Longtime manuscript editor and Chicago Manual of Style guru Carol Fisher Saller has negotiated many a standoff between a writer and editor refu...
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78,06 zł |
New Oxford Style Manual
ISBN: 9780198767251 / Angielski / Twarda / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Oxford Style Manual brings together the new editions of two essential reference works in a single volume. Combining New Hart's Rules with the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, this is the definitive guide to the written word.
New Hart's Rules, Oxford's definite guide to style, gives authoritative and expert advice on how to prepare copy for publication in print and electronically. Topics covered include how to punctuate and hyphenate accurately, capitalization guidelines, structuring text coherently, how to use quotations and citations clearly, how to provide accurate... The New Oxford Style Manual brings together the new editions of two essential reference works in a single volume. Combining New Hart's Rules with the ...
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148,29 zł |
Short Stories for Children: Alice and Her Gift and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9781515351870 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,57 zł |
Beyond the Style Manual: Bundle #1
ISBN: 9781940215679 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 3 Beyond the Style Manual Guides Hook, Tagline, and Sinker, by Kris James Hook, Tagline, and Sinker is a guide for anyone who wants to learn how to write concise, targeted, catchy book descriptions. Potential readers' first introduction to your writing occurs when they experience your book description. Making that short pitch shine is critical to the success of your book, no matter where you market, share, or shelve it. Hook, Tagline, and Sinker will teach you some great techniques, give some tips and tricks, and explain pitfalls to avoid. The most in-depth, accurate, and detailed description...
3 Beyond the Style Manual Guides Hook, Tagline, and Sinker, by Kris James Hook, Tagline, and Sinker is a guide for anyone who wants to learn how to wr...
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59,15 zł |
5 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing
ISBN: 9780986134715 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Don't fall victim to the 12 fatal flaws of fiction writing Fiction writers often struggle to improve their craft And the biggest challenge comes from the inability to see what isn't working. The prose feels off. The scene isn't gelling. The dialogue sounds stilted or clunky. But they don't know why or how to fix it. This book lays it all out 5 Editors Tackle the Twelve Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing demonstrates the deadly dozen pitfalls on the road to a strong story, along with revisions that show writers exactly how to avoid novel... Don't fall victim to the 12 fatal flaws of fiction writing Fiction writers often struggle to improve their craft And the biggest... |
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68,07 zł |
From-the-Editor Columns Published in the American Journal of Cardiology, 1982-2015
ISBN: 9780984523764 / Angielski / Twarda / 634 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together 221 From-the-Editor columns published in The American Journal of Cardiology between 1982 and 2015. The columns cover various topics, including cardiovascular disease, preventive cardiology, the history of medicine, international cardiology, and editing and writing. About the author: William C. Roberts, MD, is executive director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and dean of the A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Health Care System. He has served as editor in chief of The American...
This book brings together 221 From-the-Editor columns published in The American Journal of Cardiology between 1982 and 2015. The columns cover various...
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267,08 zł |
The Magic of Fiction: Crafting Words into Story: The Writer's Guide to Writing & Editing
ISBN: 9780997177008 / Angielski / Miękka / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The prospect of writing a novel can seem daunting, but writing, revising, and editing fiction don't have to be headache-inducing tasks. The prospect of writing a novel can seem daunting, but writing, revising, and editing fiction don't have to be headache-inducing tasks. |
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207,57 zł |
Euphonics for Writers: Professional Techniques for Fiction Authors
ISBN: 9781530801831 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,07 zł |