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The Copyeditor's Workbook

Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment
Erika Buky, Marilyn Schwartz, Amy Einsohn

Put your editing skills into practice with this new companion to the handbook on every copyeditor’s desk.

The Copyeditor’s Workbook—a companion to the indispensable Copyeditor’s Handbook, now in its fourth edition—offers comprehensive and practical training for both aspiring and experienced copyeditors. Exercises of increasing difficulty and length, covering a range of subjects, enable you to advance in skill and confidence. Detailed answer keys offer a grounding in editorial basics, appropriate usage choices for different contexts and audiences, and advice on communicating effectively with authors and clients. The exercises provide an extensive workout in the knowledge and skills required of contemporary editors.

Features and Benefits
  • Workbook challenges editors to build their skills and to use new tools.
  • Exercises vary and increase in difficulty and length, allowing users to advance along the way.
  • Answer keys illustrate several techniques for marking copy, including marking PDFs and hand marking hard copy.
  • Book includes access to online exercises available for download.
 
Erika Buky is a freelance editor currently based in New Zealand. She joined the University of California Press in 1991 and served as Assistant Managing Editor from 2000 to 2004. She has worked as a freelance copyeditor and developmental editor for scholarly and commercial publishers, research foundations, advocacy groups, museums, and private clients. She has also taught English composition and grammar, rhetoric, and scholarly editing.
 
After earning a PhD in English in 1976, Marilyn Schwartz joined the staff of the University of California Press and served as Managing Editor for twenty-eight years. From 1979 through 2004 she also taught editorial workshops for UC Berkeley Extension. She is the principal author of Guidelines for Bias-Free Writing.
 
Amy Einsohn was a professional editor who worked in scholarly, trade nonfiction, and corporate publishing. She taught dozens of copyediting courses and also conducted on-site corporate training workshops.
“Editors, you’re not done when you’ve read the fourth edition of The Copyeditor’s Handbook. Do every single exercise in the comprehensive Workbook. You have to love a workbook that has an exercise with an editor’s version of the classic lightbulb joke.”—Katharine O’Moore-Klopf, ELS, owner of KOK Edit
 
“The Copyeditor’s Workbook is a dream come true for teachers and students, a major expansion on (but including) Amy Einsohn’s original exercises. Thorough and (yes) often entertaining, the Workbook offers more than forty strategic drills—most of them new—in print and digital form. Perfect for training meticulous yet insightful copyeditors.”—Carol Saller, author of The Subversive Copy Editor
 
“The Workbook triples the number of exercises from the origin Handbook and offers far more scope for classroom settings, solo learning, and informal study groups.”—Pm Weizenbaum, 2018 president of the Northwest Editors Guild
 
“I’m really excited about The Copyeditor’s Workbook. It fills a gap in editor education and will help students develop that most elusive of skills—editorial judgment. With reminders that often there is no one right answer and exposure to different editing techniques and editor resources, the Workbook is an excellent addition to any copyediting course using The Copyeditor’s Handbook.”—Erin Brenner, owner of Right Touch Editing and former owner of Copyediting.com
384 pp.7 x 10Illus: 25 b/w photographs, 2 line art
9780520294356$24.95|£21.00Paper
May 2019