Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Editing & Proofreading

Over 50,000 books are published in America each year, the vast majority nonfiction. Even so, many writers are stymied in getting their books published, never mind gaining significant attention for their ideas--and substantial sales. This is the book editors have been recommending to would-be authors. Filled with trade secrets, Thinking Like Your Editor explains:

- why every proposal should ask and answer five key questions;

- how to tailor academic writing to a general reader, without losing ideas or dumbing down your work;

- how to write a proposal that editors...

The editing of texts remains an important professional task for both the historian and the literary scholar. Originally presented at the Thirtieth Annual Conference on Editorial Problems held at the University of Toronto in November 1994 the six essays in this collection reflect on three successfully completed editing projects - the editions of the registers of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Paris, the registers of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the time of Calvin, and The Complete Works of Thomas More. They also explore new initiatives, namely, the Independent Works of...

Expanded and updated sections address pagination, verifying information, grammar, wordiness, editing...

Die Uneinheitlichkeit und Ungenauigkeit der editorischen Terminologie ist eine oft beklagte Erschwernis jeder Herausgebertatigkeit. Nicht nur die Verstandigung der Editoren untereinander, sondern vor allem auch die Begrundung und Prasentation der Ergebnisse editorischer Arbeit werden durch diesen Missstand erheblich beeintrachtigt. Vor diesem Hintergrund entschloss sich der Herausgeber in der Mitte der neunziger Jahre, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arbeitsgemeinschaft fur germanistische Edition das Projekt eines Worterbuchs der Editionsphilologie zu initiieren. Der Band fasst...