The Writer's Guide to Self-Editing

Essential Tips for Online and Print Publication

Naveed Saleh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7159-8 (ISBN)

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With advances in technology, publication has changed. Editors no longer serve as gatekeepers–especially with respect to online publication. However, this independence often comes at a price: lack of editorial oversight and assistance. This book will help you self-edit your work for publication. The principles detailed in this book apply to a wide range of print and online publications.

Over the years, technological advances have given publishers the ability to produce more books and online publications with greater speed. This new efficiency, however, has increased editors' workloads, limiting the amount of detailed editorial feedback that they can provide authors. In turn, writers must become self-editors, ensuring that their text is nearly perfect on submission.

This book serves as a guide to self-editing nonfiction print and online publications, including articles for general and academic audiences. It is both prescriptive and descriptive, drawing from stylebooks, dictionaries, research, and more to provide a full picture of both style and grammar. Also provided are techniques that boost search-engine optimization and engagement of Internet audiences.

Naveed Saleh is a best-selling book author, science writer, and editor. He has written for various online and print publications and is a long-time blogger at Psychology Today. He lives in Southern California.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Style

1. Adverb Placement

2. Articles

3. Comparison-Formations

4. Personal Pronouns

5. Plurals

6. Prepositions

7. Present and Past Participles

8. Subject-Verb Agreement

9. Tenses

10. Who and Whom

Part II: Diction

11. Attributive Nouns

12. Clear Antecedents

13. Comparisons

14. Core Modals

15. Figurative Language

16. Idioms

17. Jargon

18. Left-Branching Sentences

19. Misplaced Modifiers

20. Negations

21. Nominalizations

22. Noun Choice

23. Noun Strings

24. Parallelism

25. Passive Voice

26. Powerhouse Verbs

27. Preposition Stranding

28. Progressive Tense: A Linguistics Perspective

29. Relative Pronouns

30. Subjunctive Mood

31. Transition Words and Phrases

32. Using “as well as”

33. Verbals

34. Word Usage

35. Wordiness

Part III: Mechanics

36. Abbreviations

37. Capitalization

38. Contractions

39. Interjections

40. Italics

41. Numbers

42. Orthography

Part IV: Punctuation

43. Colons

44. Commas

45. Ellipsis Points

46. Exclamation Points

47. Interrupters

48. Possessive Forms

49. Punctuating Appositives

50. Question Marks

51. Quotations

52. Semicolons

53. Slashes

Part V: Organization

54. Headers

55. Lists

56. Paragraphs

57. Sentence Length

58. Tables

59. Titles and Headlines

Part VI: Online Publication

60. Header Tags: Titles, Subtitles, and Subheads

61. Keywords

62. Links

63. Meta Descriptions

64. Photos

65. Taxonomy

Part VII: Global Considerations

66. Angles and Hooks

67. Audience

68. Hedging

69. Humanism and Unbiased Language

70. Identification

71. Narrative: Beginnings, Middles, and Ends

72. Paraphrasing

73. Prescriptive vs. Descriptive

74. Sources

75. Tone

Appendices:

deleteAppendix I: Understanding Editing

deleteAppendix II: Grammar vs. Style

deleteAppendix III: How Does Google Search Work?

deleteAppendix IV: Updating Content

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	appendices, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	1-4766-7159-1 / 1476671591
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7159-8 / 9781476671598
Zustand	Neuware