Revising Professional Writing in Science and Technology, Business, and the Social Sciences

by Kathryn Riley, Kim Sydow Campbell, Alan Manning

Revising Professional Writing is an affordable textbook for courses in scientific and technical writing, business writing, and other types of advanced writing. Each chapter explains principles for revising or editing a single feature of a draft. Students then solve revision and editing problems in the applications section of each chapter.

FEATURES:
Over 400 revision and editing problems covering rhetorical context, development, organization, style and tone, and mechanics.
Problems range from sentences and paragraphs to 11 full-length texts.
Examples from a variety of texts: memos, letters, résumés, proposals, instructions, definitions, and reports.
All revising and editing problems drawn from the actual writing of college students.
Self-contained chapters, allowing flexible use with other textbooks.

170 pages, Spiral-bound

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this for a graduate class in editing, and it provides a clear understanding of the grammatical decisions editors need to make in the course of copy editing and proofreading. It's written as a workbook, with numerous exercises for practical application.