Editing for Writers

Based on interviews withactual workplace writers and editors,this unique text/workbook teaches editing approaches and skills that writers can apply to their own or others' documents.Outlines a process to identify and solve problems and helps readers develop the ability toexplaintheir editing decisions. Features 136 different kinds of exercises. Contains special chapters on editing on-line documentation, graphics, document design, and on international and intercultural issues, as well as 16 different checklists that can be applied to developmental editing, copyediting, and proofreading.For anyone interested in editing or copyediting; professional, technical, science, business, or nursing writing; or nonfiction writing.