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Title: Technical Editing (3rd Edition) by Carolyn Rude ISBN: 0-205-33556-X Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 31 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $71.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Rude advice
Comment: One of the worst textbooks I've ever used. My students (college English majors) hate it because Dr. Rude presents rules, and then contradicts them.
Rating: 2
Summary: Physician Heal Thyself
Comment: Dr. Rude should have read her book before she wrote it. While her advice is sound enough, she almost uniformly fails to follow it herself. Her book doesn't follow the schemata, the grammatical rules, the proofing rules, or the design rules, that she sets out for others. The ultimate example of this was when, in the section on political correctness, she advises the reader to refrain from using perjorative or demeaning terms for "handicappeds." "Handicapped" is itself considered perjorative and demeaning. She therefore broke the rule in stating it! Amazing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent for all fields, editors and writers
Comment: Dr. Rude did a masterful job of explaining the concepts behind good writing. Reading this book improves your entire writing process by teaching the reader what he should not do when constructing any component within a document, be it a sentence, paragraph, chapter, etc.
It also provides an excellent reference for copy editing symbols, defines the various levels of editing, and defines the roles that writers, editors, and publishers should have.
Overall, Technical Editing has done more to improve my writing than all other writing books combine. It is a must have for your reference library and excellent for classroom instruction
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Title: Line by Line : How to Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook ISBN: 0395393914 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 30 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Designing Visual Language: Strategies for Professional Communicators (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication) by Charles Kostelnick, David D. Roberts ISBN: 0205200222 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 16 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $63.00 |
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Title: Usability Testing and Research (Part of the Allyn & Bacon Series in Technical Communication) by Carol M. Barnum ISBN: 0205315194 Publisher: Pearson Longman Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $58.00 |
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Title: The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin Williams ISBN: 1566091594 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: On Writing Well, 25th Anniversary : The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William K. Zinsser ISBN: 0060006641 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 18 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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