Guide to Technical Editing: Discussion Dictionary & Exercises - Brossura

Eisenberg, Anne

 
9780195063066: Guide to Technical Editing: Discussion Dictionary & Exercises

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This unique new handbook will be an essential resource for writers, working scientists, engineers, and technical professionals for whom English is not a first language. The only book of its kind, Guide to Technical Editing shows how to edit technical writing for accuracy, clarity, and grammar. The workbook provides practical exercises for editing abstracts and presenting technical information from the reader's point of view, and includes a technical editor's glossary with stylebook entries as well as common terms.

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Recensione

'This is an excellent practical guide, for students and wirters, to the editing of technical texts.'Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 58, No. 1, January 1993

Contenuti

Discussion: Edit for organization that shows main points and significance; Edit for titles, headings, and subheadings that mark main points and their order; Edit for definitions crucial to reader understanding; Edit for a concise, consistent style; Edit for tables that display data vividly and concisely; Edit for figures that identify and explain; Edit for completeness, accuracy, and consistency; Dictionary exercises.

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