Saller, Carol Fisher

The subversive copy editor : advice from Chicago (or, how to negotiate good relationships with your writers, your colleagues, and yourself) / Carol Fisher Saller. - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, c2009. - xvi, 134 pages ; 21 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.

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Copy editing.
Edición.
Periodismo --Edición

PN 4784 / S168s 2009

808/.06607