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| bio | website | textproof.com/stewart |
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| location | Berlin, Germany | |
| age | 43 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 6 months |
| seen | May 6 at 9:39 | |
| stats | profile views | 22 |
Freelance scientific copy-editor.
You can read my irregular waffles at advogato.org/person/chalst/.
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Dec 20 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Dec 20 |
awarded | Student |
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Dec 20 |
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Strategies for shortening texts @justkt: Personally, I care about nonfiction, and usually texts of length between 300 and 15 000 words. I do this professionally, though, and I'm asking the question as a service for the site: to that end, I'm interested in fictional work. It had never occurred to me that anyone would want to chop up a piece of poetry to fit a word limit, but I should think that must happen. |
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Dec 20 |
asked | Strategies for shortening texts |
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Dec 20 |
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How can one make technical issues more accessible to a non-technical audience? Unbelievable - Well, they are a lot of work to do well, and sloppiness is very easily spotted with them. |
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Dec 20 |
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How can one make technical issues more accessible to a non-technical audience? I disagree about the key importance about making definitions of terms come at first occurence. It's good to watch for, but I've seen an opposite tactic used effectively, where there is fear that the term's definition won't be understood without being armed by explanation that needs the term. Giving a rough, working impression of a term before introducing the full definition can be effective. |
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Dec 20 |
answered | How can one make technical issues more accessible to a non-technical audience? |
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Dec 20 |
answered | What are the most common style manuals? |
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Dec 20 |
asked | Should DOIs ever be preferred to ISBNs? |
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Dec 20 |
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What are the most common style manuals? Strunk&White is a usage guide, not a style guide as it is usually meant. It doesn't say anything about the organisation of manuscripts, which is the first responsibility of style guides proper. |
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Dec 15 |
answered | How much leeway can be expected from an editor regarding my preference for nonstandard punctuation? |
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Dec 7 |
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When editing for a person, how much can be changed? @neilfein: Line editing (and manuscript editing) describe an activity, copy/developmental editing describe editorial roles. Developmental editing is done to manuscripts that are not what one would usually call ready for publication: an author's agent might do this. Copy-editing is the editing a publisher does to a submitted manuscript to get the text ready for the typesetter. Anything that a developmental editor might do to a text, a copy-editor might do as well. Note that style manuals like Chicago don't have much to say about copy/developmental editing, cf. Chicago #16, 2.45. |
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Dec 7 |
answered | When editing for a person, how much can be changed? |
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Nov 25 |
awarded | Autobiographer |
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Nov 25 |
awarded | Supporter |
