Editing Overview

Unit I (ENG 405/570)

 

CE, Ch. 1,  Production Overview
CE, “No Copyeditor should be without” (p. 297)

CE, Ch. 2,  Copy marking        

CMS, 2.58-2.94, Copyediting

CE, Ch. 3,  Style sheets & consistency

CE, Ch. 9, Typemarking & keying

CMS, 2.95-2.122,  style sheets & consistency

CE,  Ch. 5, Spelling, Caps,

CE, Ch. 7, Numbers & Abbrev.

CMS, 6-8, 14Spelling, Caps. & Abbrev.

 

Case Study:  Maxwell Perkins

(Berg’s Maxwell Perkins & Howard’s “Mistah Perkins—He dead”)

 

In-class Exam

 

 

Unit I (ENG 570 only)

 

Background History from Editors on Editing

Gross, “Reflections on a Lifetime of Editing”

Willimans, “What is an Editor?”

Aronson, “The Evolution of the American Editor”

 

Case Study:  Harold Ross (Genius in Disguise; introduction to Letters)

 

Take-home Exam