Guide to Technical Editing: Discussion, Dictionary, and Exercises / Edition 1

by Anne Eisenberg

Overview

This unique new handbook will be an essential resource for writers, working scientists, engineers, and technical professionals for whom English is not a first language. The only book of its kind, Guide to Technical Editing shows how to edit technical writing for accuracy, clarity, and grammar. The workbook provides practical exercises for editing abstracts and presenting technical information from the reader's point of view, and includes a technical editor's glossary with stylebook entries as well as common terms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195063066
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/09/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	9.24(w) x 6.57(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

the Polytechnic University, Brooklyn

Table of Contents

DISCUSSION1. Edit for organization that shows main points and significance2. Edit for titles, headings, and subheadings that mark main points and their order3. Edit for definitions crucial to reader understanding4. Edit for a concise, consistent style5. Edit for tables that display data vividly and concisely6. Edit for figures that identify and explain7. Edit for completeness, accuracy, and consistencyDICTIONARYEXERCISES

Editorial Reviews

"My work as a technical writer and editor has made me aware of my students' need to relate to the technical writing world....Includes 'real world' problems and solutions....Invaluable to those who will soon be working in a technically oriented world."—Judy Lange, Chapman University

"I'm particularly impressed by the exercises."—Joyce M. Rothschild, Auburn University

"Excellent use of text and graphics. I particularly found the dictionary format easy to follow. Very 'user friendly'"!—Jack Hutson, Lewis-Clark State College

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