The subversive copy editor : advice from Chicago (or, how to negotiate good relationships with your writers, your colleagues, and yourself) /

Saller, Carol,

The subversive copy editor : advice from Chicago (or, how to negotiate good relationships with your writers, your colleagues, and yourself) / Carol Fisher Saller. - Second edition. - Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016. - xix, 186 pages ; 23 cm. - Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing . - Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The subversive copy editor -- The good launch -- Working for the reader, through the writer : carefulness, transparency, flexibility -- When things get tough : the difficult author -- The misguided martyr, or, Laying down your life for the serial comma -- Dear writers : a chapter of your own -- When things get tough (the sequel) : the dangerous manuscript -- Know thy word processor -- The living deadline -- That damned village : managing work relationships -- The freelancer's quandaries -- Things we haven't learned yet : keeping up professionally -- The Zen of copyediting -- You still want to be a copy editor? : Breaking in.

9780226239903 (cloth : alkaline paper) 9780226240077 (paperback : alkaline paper)

2015039591


Copy editing.

PN4784.C75 / SAL 2016

070.4/15