Editing Made Easy: Secrets of the Professionals - Softcover

Kaplan, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0646369075 ISBN 13: 9780646369075

Publisher: Bruce Kaplan, 2002

Synopsis

A quick reference for people wishing to develop their editing and writing skills. This guide is packed with professional tips on how to add more zap and clarity to reports, articles, press releases, hard news, newsletters, brochures and business communications. The professionals know the secrets to clear, active, interesting English-it is their job. But anyone can learn-it is simply a matter of knowing the rules. This book explains these rules in a simple and entertaining way. Editing Made Easy is widely used at writing/journalism schools and universities. It is a top seller at writing centres and is a key training resource for writers/editors on many major newspapers and magazines. Government departments use this book, as does private enterprise. The secret of this book's success is that it is non-technical, user-friendly and price-friendly, particularly for students.

About this title

From the Publisher

From humble beginnings, Editing Made Easy has enjoyed outstanding international success since it was first published in May 1999.

The first edition sold out quickly, the second edition was published in November 1999 and the third edition was published in September 2001.

Reviewers around the world have sung the praises of Editing Made Easy, which has quickly become the benchmark against which all other books of this kind must be judged. Editing Made Easy is the top-selling book at many major writing centres and is in use at dozens of universities, higher education institutions, adult education centres and journalism schools.

Editing Made Easy is also used to train journalists/editors on many major daily newspapers and in a variety of publishing houses.

Editing Made Easy is on sale in the UK, USA, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa and New Zealand.

Simply written and to the point, Editing Made Easy is an essential resource for anyone who wants to hone their editing skills or to write better English.

From the Author

The success of Editing Made Easy has been nothing short of overwhelming. The interest and demand have really surprised me.

As a professional newspaper sub-editor (copy editor) and editorial trainer, I wrote this book because I believed there was a need.

Sure, there are plenty of books about editing, but they all seem too complex and too technical - not to mention far too expensive. A person wanting to learn the basics of good editing and plain English has little need for a costly tome largely devoted to explaining the secrets of computerised page design, or to explaining the difference between a transitive and an intransitive verb (yawn).

So I set out to write a 'friendly' book that explains the secrets of editing in no-nonsense, non-technical language - a book that everyone can understand. I also wanted the book to be affordable.

And so Editing Made Easy was born.

I hope you enjoy it and find useful.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bruce Kaplan
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0646369075
• ISBN 13: 9780646369075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 88