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The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 1,462 ratings — published 2000
The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,816 ratings — published 2009
The Chicago Manual of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 6,186 ratings — published 1906
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.15 — 838 ratings — published
The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.70 — 211 ratings — published
Words into Type (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 127 ratings — published 1948
Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.01 — 369 ratings — published 2009
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 6,542 ratings — published 2015
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,407 ratings — published 1996
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,427 ratings — published 1918
Garner's Modern American Usage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,070 ratings — published 1998
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 115 ratings — published 2024
The McGraw-Hill Handbook of English Grammar and Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 355 ratings — published 2004
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,036 ratings — published 1978
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,430 ratings — published 2019
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 1,043 ratings — published 2006
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,267 ratings — published 2014
The Best Punctuation Book, Period (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 541 ratings — published 2014
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 374 ratings — published 1985
Lapsing Into a Comma: A Curmudgeon’s Guide to the Many Things That Can Go Wrong in Print—and How to Avoid Them (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 650 ratings — published 2000
The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing (Essential Resource Library) (Essential Resource Library)
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avg rating 4.13 — 228 ratings — published 2000
Copyediting: A Practical Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 94 ratings — published 1988
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 320,927 ratings — published 2000
The Copyeditor's Workbook: Exercises and Tips for Honing Your Editorial Judgment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 26 ratings — published
The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors: How to Take Care of Your Business, Your Clients, and Yourself from Start-Up to Sustainability (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.67 — 43 ratings — published
Editors on Editing: What Writers Need to Know About What Editors Do (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 368 ratings — published 1962
On Revision: The Only Writing That Counts (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 3.88 — 179 ratings — published
It Was The Best Of Sentences, It Was The Worst Of Sentences: A Writer's Guide To Crafting Killer Sentences (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,610 ratings — published 2010
The Editor's Companion: An Indispensable Guide to Editing Books, Magazines, Online Publications, and More (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 175 ratings — published 2014
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,103 ratings — published 2007
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 2,836 ratings — published 1843
The Fine Art of Copyediting (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 50 ratings — published 1991
Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and Publishers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 65 ratings — published 1975
Stet: An Editor's Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,622 ratings — published 2000
The Business of Editing: Effective and Efficient Ways to Think, Work, and Prosper (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 2013
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,557 ratings — published 1984
The Gregg Reference Manual: A Manual of Style, Grammar, Usage, and Formatting (Spiral-bound)
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avg rating 4.28 — 398 ratings — published 1951
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,305 ratings — published 2017
Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies (For Dummies Series)
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avg rating 3.97 — 379 ratings — published 2007
Marketing Your Editing & Proofreading Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 40 ratings — published 2014
Write Through It: An Insider's Guide to Publishing and the Creative Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 167 ratings — published 2025
All About Copyediting: 55 Easy Steps To Improve Your Novel (Writing Craft Essentials)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 6,123 ratings — published 1998
Elements of Style 2017 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 76 ratings — published
Style: The Basics of Clarity and Grace (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 415 ratings — published
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 919 ratings — published 1997
Substance & Style: Instruction and Practice in Copyediting (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 20 ratings — published 1989
AP Style Guide Simplified: Associated Press Style Manual: AP Quick Study Concise Guide (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Grammar 101: From Split Infinitives to Dangling Participles, an Essential Guide to Understanding Grammar (Adams 101 Series)
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avg rating 4.09 — 86 ratings — published 2017
The Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need: A One-Stop Source for Every Writing Assignment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,195 ratings — published 2003
“Though I believe it's beyond the power of any mortal to completely relieve my prose of typos.”
― The Rithmatist
― The Rithmatist
“Good first impressions....are good for business.”
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