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Editing Books
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The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,814 ratings — published 2009
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 — 1,464 ratings — published 2000
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers: How to Edit Yourself Into Print (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,111 ratings — published 1993
What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.16 — 835 ratings — published
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,176 ratings — published 1918
Developmental Editing: A Handbook for Freelancers, Authors, and Publishers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.01 — 368 ratings — published 2009
In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 8,495 ratings — published 1995
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,442 ratings — published 2003
The Chicago Manual of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 6,186 ratings — published 1906
The Artful Edit: On the Practice of Editing Yourself (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,091 ratings — published 2007
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,397 ratings — published 2019
The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,954 ratings — published 2015
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
The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.71 — 203 ratings — published
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 6,530 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 — 4,404 ratings — published 1996
The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 316 ratings — published 1982
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 3.84 — 651 ratings — published 2000
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,358 ratings — published 1999
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,713 ratings — published 2002
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 30,893 ratings — published 1976
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 371 ratings — published 1985
The Editor's Companion: An Indispensable Guide to Editing Books, Magazines, Online Publications, and More (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 174 ratings — published 2014
Revision & Self-Editing: Techniques for Transforming Your First Draft Into a Finished Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,736 ratings — published 2008
Art of the Cut (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 177 ratings — published 2008
Style: Toward Clarity and Grace (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,045 ratings — published 1981
An Editor's Guide to Working with Authors (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.53 — 83 ratings — published 2010
Garner's Modern American Usage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,067 ratings — published 1998
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,028 ratings — published 1978
Stein on Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 4,794 ratings — published 1995
The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big Issues and Gray Areas of Contemporary American English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 442 ratings — published 2004
Thinking Like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfiction and Get It Published (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 506 ratings — published 2002
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,241 ratings — published 2017
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 9,224 ratings — published 2014
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,259 ratings — published 2010
Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 78 ratings — published 2009
Copyediting: A Practical Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.54 — 94 ratings — published 1988
Garner's Modern English Usage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.69 — 211 ratings — published
Intuitive Editing: A Creative and Practical Guide to Revising Your Writing (ebook)
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avg rating 4.63 — 466 ratings — published 2020
The Paper It's Written On: Defining your relationship with an editing client (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.69 — 55 ratings — published
The Best Punctuation Book, Period (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 540 ratings — published 2014
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 318,686 ratings — published 2000
Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,559 ratings — published 2012
Grammatically Correct (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 497 ratings — published 1997
Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 379 ratings — published 2007
Words into Type (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 127 ratings — published 1948
The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 158 ratings — published 1993
On Film Editing: An Introduction to the Art of Film Construction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 221 ratings — published 1984
Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 21,404 ratings — published 1973
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 — 1,553 ratings — published 1984
“While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.”
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“Any book without a mistake in it has had too much money spent on it.”
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