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.

If you want to learn more about editing textbooks and other educational resources, this guide is for you. Hetty Marx is a textbook development editor who has worked extensively with leading educational publishers, both in-house and as a freelancer. In this guide, she explores:

1. typical workflows and working practices involved in editing textbooks
2. key questions to consider when development editing textbooks
3. the main tasks and checks to complete when copyediting textbooks
4. advice 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:	9781915141309
Publisher:	Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading
Publication date:	12/13/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	62
File size:	965 KB

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.