The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice From Chicago (or, How to Negotiate Good Relationships with Your Writers, Your Colleagues, and Yourself)
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- Synopsis
- 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 standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit". "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times". "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it's not a post-face".
- Copyright:
- 2009
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 134 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780226734248
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- Date of Addition:
- 12/22/09
- Copyrighted By:
- Carol Fisher Saller
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Daproim Africa
- Proofread By:
- Daproim Africa
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.