Editing Textbooks

by Hetty Marx

Overview

CIEP guides provide a short, basic introduction to the various skills and knowledge needed to work as an editorial professional. They are intended for copyeditors and proofreaders, both practising and potential, and will also prove useful to others involved in publishing content, including businesses, organisations, agencies, students and authors.

This guide is an introduction to editing textbooks. It is primarily aimed at editors who have some knowledge of the publishing world and of core

editing skills, and who are interested in applying this knowledge to editing textbooks and other educational materials.

This short guide covers:

typical workflows and working practices involved in editing textbookskey questions to consider when development editing textbooksthe main tasks and checks to complete when copyediting textbooksadvice on how to work well with publishers, packagers and authors.



This practical guide will provide you with a clear understanding of how educational publishing works and help increase your confidence when editing educational resources.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781915141163
Publisher:	Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
Publication date:	02/23/2023
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.12(d)

About the Author

Hetty Marx is a textbook development editor and Advanced ProfessionalMember of the CIEP. She has worked in textbook publishing since 2004,including as a development editor at Pearson and a commissioningeditor at Cambridge University Press. She started her freelancedevelopment editing business in 2016 and has worked on school anduniversity textbooks for a range of publishers, specialising in socialsciences.