Copy Editing


The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
The Chicago Manual of Style
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
The Elements of Style
Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and Publishers
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
Brokeula
Not Your Final Girl
The Midnight Muse
Meat Bees
How to Copyedit Your Own Writing
A Writer's Reference with Exercises with 2016 MLA Update
Carol Fisher Saller
There should be no crying in copyediting.
Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago

Mary Norris
We copy editors sometimes get a reputation for wanting to redirect the flow, change the course of the missile, have our way with a piece of prose. The image of the copy editor is of someone who favors a rigid consistency, a mean person who enjoys pointing out other people's errors, a lowly person who is just starting out on her career in publishing and is eager to make an impression, or, at worst, a bitter, thwarted person who wanted to be a writer and instead got stuck dotting the i's and cross ...more
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