The Writer's Guide to Self-Editing: Essential Tips for Online and Print Publication

by Naveed Saleh

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476634043
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	02/21/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.
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

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

Editorial Reviews

Both prescriptive and descriptive, drawing from stylebooks, dictionaries, research, and more to provide a full picture of both style and grammar...thoroughly ‘user friendly’ in organization and presentation...recommended”—Midwest Book Review.

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