Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies

Suzanne Gilad

Wiley, Apr 18, 2007 - Business & Economics - 384 pages

Turn your knack for language into a lucrative career

Must-know techniques and resources for maximizing your accuracy and speed

Interested in becoming a copyeditor or proofreader? Want to know more about what each job entails? This friendly guide helps you position yourself for success. Polish your skills, build a winning résumé, and land the job you've always wanted. Books, magazines, Web sites, corporate documents — find out how to improve any type of publication and make yourself indispensable to writers, editors, and your boss.

• Balance between style and rules

• Master the art of the query

• Use proofreader symbols

• Edit and proof electronic documents

• Build a solid freelancing career

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Review: Copyediting & Proofreading for Dummies

User Review  - Bert - Goodreads

I'm currently undertaking a distance learning proofreading course, so when somebody at work (I work for the publisher of this book) offered me a free copy that had been lying on their desk for years I ...

Review: Copyediting and Proofreading for Dummies

User Review  - Wendy - Goodreads

Has some good resources but has weaknesses as well. The single most important bit of information I gained was regarding Style Sheets. The small publishers I have worked for have not incorporated style ...

About the author

Suzanne Gilad is the founder of PaidToProofread.com. Over the course of ten years, Sue proofread or copyedited over 1,200 books for Random House, Simon & Schuster, John Wiley & Sons, St. Martin’s Press, Oxford University Press, and Workman Publishing, among others.
Illustrating firsthand that proofreading and copyediting can be profitable and fun while allowing additional pursuits, Sue is also a successful voice-over artist based in New York. You can hear her voice happily hawking products and playing characters on national and regional radio and television.
Thanks to some unexpected proofreading projects on personal finance a few years ago, a whole world of education in residual income opened for Sue. She wrote The Real Estate Millionaire (McGraw-Hill, 2005) with her husband, Boaz Gilad.
Sue currently leads seminars on multiple streams of income, and her latest passion is to teach financial freedom. Sue’s next book is the story of the creation of 15 millionaires in five years. Visit www.SueGilad.com to learn more.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Copyediting and Proofreading For Dummies; --For dummies
• Author: Suzanne Gilad
• Publisher: Wiley, 2007
• ISBN: 0470174269, 9780470174265
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Small Business; Language Arts & Disciplines / Editing & Proofreading