Editing Made Easy: Simple Rules for Effective Writing - Softcover

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Bruce Kaplan is a veteran newspaper copy editor and editorial trainer with international experience spanning more than forty years. He has held senior positions with major publications in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. He trains editors and writers for newspapers and magazines, and tutors at writers’ centers and tertiary education.

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An earlier version of Editing Made Easy, published in Bruce Kaplan's native Australia, has become a best-selling resource for writers in much or the English-speaking world. Because of the different spellings and conventions of American English, it has been unavailable here--until now.

The new book is thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and Americanized. It maintains the attractions of the original--friendly, easy-to-understand rules for improved writing. It's a quick read, and an easy reference for anybody who wants to communicate clearly with American English.

The book is non-technical in its approach. It doesn't cover grammatical terms such as present perfect progressive or correlative conjunctions. It boils grammar and style into a few simple rules that will serve you well whether you are a journalist, a student, a novelist, a business executive, a blogger, or anybody else who would like to make effective use of written language.

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Why learn editing?

The benefit to you



So why learn how to edit? Most importantly, learning to edit will make you more proficient, more polished writer. It will improve your writing in more ways than you might ever imagine. It will do the same for people whose writing you edit.

This book will give you the practical skills that techniques that professional editors use every day. The advice applies to almost all forms of writing. Exceptions may occur with diction, scientific and academic writing, and personal expressions such as e-mail and Facebook. But most of the rules apply across the board.

Essentially, this book is about plain English. The advice will help you add news, newsletters, brochures, business communicatios, short stories, staff bulletins, business proposals,non-fiction books, and—yes—even novels.

Writing is demanding, exacting, rewarding, and enriching craft. Proficiency in editing is the key to excellence in writing.