Expert advice to perfect your proofreading skills McGraw-Hill's Proofreading Handbook helps ensure that your documents are letter-perfect, every time. Veteran editor and proofreader Laura Anderson arms you with all the tools of the proofreader's trade and walks you step-by-step through the entire proofreading process.
From the Back Cover
The ideal desk companion for everyday writers, aspiring copyeditors, professional proofreaders, and veteran perfectionists alike
From term papers and annual reports to books and online articles, important documents only look professional if they are free of errors. And whether you're a student, a businessperson, or a professional proofreader, it's your job to make sure that every piece of writing that crosses your desk is clear, concise, and correct. Now you can avoid embarrassing mistakes and hone your critical skills with McGraw-Hill's Proofreading Handbook, the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to ensuring your documents are error free.
Completely updated to include the latest information on Web-based material, this second edition makes proofreading easy for beginners and nonprofessionals, while providing a complete compendium of helpful resources that accomplished proofreaders will return to again and again.
Step-by-step instructions take you through the entire proofreading process, showing you how to:
- Read for accuracy and train your eyes to hunt for errors
- Create a style sheet to help you stay consistent
- Check facts thoroughly and efficiently
- Use good judgment when querying the author
- Master the art of making proofreader's marks
- Understand typesetters' language
This comprehensive guide also provides you with the tools of the trade, giving you valuable sample style sheets, proofreading checklists, a list of commonly misspelled words, and a chart of proofreading symbols--everything you need to dot your I's and cross your T's. You'll never send out a resume, submit a report, or hand in a proofread manuscript without first consulting this go-to guide.
McGraw-Hill's Proofreading Handbook
McGraw-Hill's Proofreading Handbook,Laura Killen Anderson,McGraw-Hill,007145764X,Editing & Proofreading,Handbooks, manuals, etc,Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy,Proofreading,Reference,Writing Skills,Reading skills,Reference / Writing Skills
Books:
- Medical Spanish: A Conversational Approach
- NTC's Dictionary of Mexican Cultural Code Words : The Complete Guide to Key Words That Express How the Mexicans Think, Communicate, and Behave
- Petals Deluxe Notecards
- Planning Better Board Meetings (CarverGuide, Vol. 5)
- Pocket Reference for Writers (2nd Edition)
- Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar With Exercises
- Public Health Leadership: Putting Principles into Practice
- Reading Latin : Grammar, Vocabulary and Exercises
- Restorer's Model a Shop Manual: Complete and Illustrated/F879Ap
- Rhetorical Criticism: Exploration and Practice
Books
- Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic : A Pearls Before Swine Treasury
- Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
- Mr. Mikey's Video Views; Volume One
- Smart Things to Know About, Business Finance
- Handbook of Section 1983 Litigation, 2004 Edition
- In Situ Hybridization in Electron Microscopy
- Infrared (2.1-25 mm) Spectra of Minerals (2.1-25 Um Spectra of Minerals/Book and Disk)
- Oroonoko, The Rover, and Other Works (Penguin Classics)
- Necropolis (Gaunt's Ghosts)
- Potsticker Chronicles : America's Favorite Chinese Recipes
- Growing Your Herb Business
- Making the Best of Second Best: A Guide to Positive Stepparenting
- Port Cities and Intruders : The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)
- Mike Butterfield's Guide to the Mountains of New Mexico
- Honeymoon Vacations for Dummies
- German Books: Deutsche Bücher ~ 54
- Mut zum Aufbruch. 10 Jahre danach
- Die Züchtung und Haltung der Ziege
- Sight Sound Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics (with InfoTrac®)