English Usage and Style for Editors

Download or read book English Usage and Style for Editors written by Virginia Sarah Thatcher and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freelance editor and indexer Thatcher offers beginning editors a review of standard usage, and provides veterans a quick reference to solving language tangles not encountered often enough to memorize. She considers such aspects as punctuation, word order, agreement, and grammatical analysis. She refers to specific passages of such classics as the Chicago Style of Manual and The King's English, and includes a glossary without pronunciation, and copyediting and proofreader's marks. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR