Editing Proofreading category: 186 books
Words Perfect
Becoming Your Own Critique Partner
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Not everyone has access to a good critique group. If you're on your own and need someone to help polish your manuscript so it shines in the eyes of agents and editors, look no further. Using examples from their own work and a huge dash of humor, veteran authors Jane Toombs and Janet Lane Walters guide both the new writer and the experienced through the labyrinth of self-editing.
Word Watch
A Writer's Guide to the Slippery, Sneaky and Otherwise Tricky
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Just what every writer needs -- a guide to word usage with attitude. (Some will say humor, too, but nearly everyone agrees on "attitude.")
WORD WATCH is a compilation of columns written over several years for newsletters for writers' groups.
It stemmed from a conversation...
Blood from Your Own Pen
A Practical Guide on Self-Editing and Common Mistakes: For Beginning Authors Who Intend to Survive to Publication
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Sometimes there are little things you didn’t know about that can change everything, and that’s why I decided to write this guide. It is a compilation of things that have taken me sixteen years to learn, and I am going to give you the chance to learn it all in sixty minutes! Yay! Talk about a return...
by Kalifer Deil
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
This is a guide to help writers edit their own works. It is often very difficult to find many of your own errors. This guide will provide a systematic approach that if followed diligently will get most of them, prepare for e-publishing and improve style as well. Editors are expensive for self publishers...
by Eva Marie Everson
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The first thing a reader or an editor — whether acquisitions or content — sees when they open your book to page one is your best effort at what you are trying to say. Fiction or nonfiction — doesn’t matter. If your writing is weak, sprinkled with grammatical errors, and plagued by shifting...
by James Glen Stovall, Edward Mullins
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Filled with abundant exercises, The Complete Editor provides readers with many resources actively learn about copyediting, headline writing, decision-making, relationships with writers, graphic presentations, photo editing and layout and design. It also contains a separate chapter on legal principles...
by Garrett Pierson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Have you ever wanted to write a book?Have you started to write your book, but weren't able to finish?Are you ready to learn how to get a book published?Discover inside secrets to: - Writing a book fast- Where and how to start writing your book- Finding the time in your busy life to write and finish...
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 3, 2016
«Éste no es un manual para aprender a escribir, algo que los verdaderos escritores aprenden por sí mismos. Es un ensayo sobre la manera como nacen y se escriben las novelas, según mi experiencia personal [...]. Se trata, pues, de un libro muy personal y, en cierto modo, de una discreta autobiografía.»
Mario...
How to Self-Publish
The Essential Guide for Taking Your Idea to Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Are you ready to self-publish?
Are you overwhelmed by the tsunami of online advice?
Don’t waste your time - grab this guide and get published!
You want to self-publish, but you don’t know where to begin.
How long will it take me to write the first draft? When do I need to hire an...
by William Safire
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2005
These fifty humorous misrules of grammar will open the eyes of writers of all levels to fine style.
How Not to Write is a wickedly witty book about grammar, usage, and style. William Safire, the author of the New York Times Magazine column "On Language," homes in on the "essential...
Kiss My Asterisk
A Feisty Guide to Punctuation and Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Grammar has finally let its hair down! Unlike uptight grammar books that overwhelm us with every single grammar rule, Kiss My Asterisk is like a bikini: it’s fun, flirty, and covers only the most important bits. Its lessons, which are 100 percent free of complicated grammar jargon, have been carefully...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Journalism
An Insider Look at the Media Revolution—and Your Place in It
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
An insider helps money-seekers crack their way into Craigslist!
For those short on cash, the free website Craigslist provides a wide range of money-making opportunities, from selling personal items to setting up an entrepreneurial business to finding a new job. This guide provides the best...
Think Like a Publisher
33 Essential Tips to Write, Promote, and Sell Your Book
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Straight Talk from a Publisher
The publishing world has changed! An explosion in printed books, E-books, and self-publishing has contributed to more new titles coming to market than ever before. With so much happening, how does a new author stand out from the crowd? Not to mention turn a profit.
In* Think...
by David Bruce
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
This free download describes a composition assignment that I have used successfully during my years of teaching at Ohio University.
Other teachers are welcome to download and read this pdf file and decide whether this assignment will work in their classes. Of course, other teachers may modify...