RE: Editing Checklists

Subject: RE: Editing Checklists
From: "Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>
To: "Cheryl Magadieu" <cmagadieu -at- gmail -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:05:51 -0500

Kathleen Frost on the Copyediting-L resources pages has a compilation
titled "Checklist for Editors" on the Resources tab that should at least
provoke the right questions. I had to resubscribe to the list to get at
it, but that took only moments.

And, of course, you can peruse at leisure through Google. This search
looked promising:
http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=copy+editing+
checklist&aq=f&aqi=g1g-o1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=c6affe93747c32d0&ca
d=b.

Jim

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Subject: Re: Editing Checklists

This book has some very thorough editing checklists:

Technical Editing: The Practical Guide For Editors And Writers
http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Editing-Practical-Editors-Hewlett-Packar
d/dp/0201563568/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285958712&sr=8-1

<http://www.amazon.com/Technical-Editing-Practical-Editors-Hewlett-Packa
rd/dp/0201563568/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1285958712&sr=8-1>
Cheryl

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Lippincott, Richard
<RLippincott -at- as-e -dot- com>wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a good editing checklist?
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References:
Editing Checklists: From: Lippincott, Richard
Re: Editing Checklists: From: Cheryl Magadieu

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