English 405/605 Editing
 Professor Eldred

Course Descriptions

Texts

*      ENG 405

Chicago Manual of Style 14th (1993) University of Chicago Press

Einsohn, The Copyeditor’s Handbook (2000) University of California Press

Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) Dutton

Mehta, Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker : The Invisible Art of Editing (1999)

 

*      ENG 605

Chicago Manual of Style 14th (1993) University of Chicago Press

Einsohn, The Copyeditor’s Handbook (2000) University of California Press

Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978) Dutton

Kunkel, Genius in Disguise (1995) Carroll & Graf

Mehta, Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker : The Invisible Art of Editing (1999)

Corey, The World Through a Monocle: The New Yorker at Midcentury (1999) Harvard

Miller, Making Love Modern (1999) Oxford

 

*      Electronic Reserve for 405/605

Wolfe, “The New Yorker Affair,” reprinted in Hooking Up (2000) Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Preface & Ch. 1, pp. 59-64, 71-74, 84-90 from Adler’s Gone (1999) Simon & Schuster

Gross, “Preface,” Williams, “What is an Editor?”, Aronson, “The Evolution of the American Editor,” Howard, “Mistah Perkins—He Dead,” Wade, “Doing Good—And Doing it Right” from Editors on Editing (1962/1993) Grove

*      Library Reserve for 405/605

Gross, ed. Editors on Editing

 

*      YOU’LL ALSO NEED ACCESS TO A GOOD DICTIONARY! (We’ll study this issue in class.)

 

Requirements

*      ENG 405

*      ENG 605

 

Course Objectives

 

Overview

*      Unit I

*      Unit II

*      Unit III

 

 

 

 

Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed.