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050 00 $aPN4784.C75$bS25 2009
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100 1 $aSaller, Carol.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90676355
245 14 $aThe subversive copy editor :$badvice from Chicago (or, how to negotiate good relationships with your writers, your colleagues, and yourself) /$cCarol Fisher Saller.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2009.
300 $axvi, 134 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aChicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 123-127) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tWorking With the Writer, for the Reader -- $g1.$tThe Subversive Copy Editor -- $g2.$tThe Good Launch -- $g3.$tWorking for the Reader,through the Writer: Carefulness, Transparency, Flexibility -- $g4.$tWhen Things Get Tough: The Difficult Author -- $g5.$tDear Writers: A Chapter of Your Own -- $gPt. 2.$tWorking With Your Colleagues and With Yourself -- $g6.$tWhen Things Get Tough (the Sequel): The Dangerous Manuscript -- $g7.$tKnow Thy Word Processor -- $g8.$tThe Living Deadline -- $g9.$tThat Damned Village: Managing Work Relationships -- $g10.$tThe Freelancer's Quandaries -- $g11.$tThe Zen of Copyediting -- $gApp.$tYou Still Want to Be a Copy Editor? Breaking In.
520 1 $a"Each year writers and editors submit more than three thousand grammar and style questions to the Q&A page at The Chicago Manual of Style Online. Some are arcane, some truly hilarious - and one editor, Carol Fisher Saller, reads every single one of them. All too often she notes a classic author-editor standoff, wherein both parties refuse to compromise on the "rights" and "wrongs" of prose styling: "This author is giving me a fit." "I wish that I could just DEMAND the use of the serial comma at all times." "My author wants his preface to come at the end of the book. This just seems ridiculous to me. I mean, it's not a post-face."" "In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller casts aside this adversarial view and suggests practical strategies for keeping the peace. Emphasizing habits of carefulness, transparency, and flexibility, she shows copy editors how to build an environment of trust and cooperation. One chapter takes on the difficult author; another speaks directly to writers. Throughout, the focus is on serving the reader, even if it means breaking "rules" along the way. Saller's own foibles and misadventures provide ample material: "I mess up all the time," she confesses. "It's how I know things."" "Writers, Saller acknowledges, are only half the challenge, as copy editors can make plenty of trouble for themselves. (Does any other book have an index entry "terrorists. See copy editors"?) The book includes helpful sections one-mail etiquette, work-flow management, prioritizing, and organizing computer files. One chapter addresses the special concerns of freelance editors." "Saller's emphasis on negotiation and flexibility will surprise many copy editors who have absorbed, along with the dos and don'ts of their stylebooks, an attitude that their way is the right way. In encouraging copy editors to banish their ignorance and disorganization, insecurities and compulsions, the Chicago Q&A presents itself as a kind of alter ego to the comparatively staid Manual of Style. In The Subversive Copy Editor, Saller continues her mission with audacity and good humor."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCopy editing.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85032433
830 0 $aChicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86741026
852 00 $bjou$hPN4784.C75$iS25 2009