Guide to Technical Editing: Discussion, Dictionary, and Exercises

"Guide to Technical Editing: Discussion, Dictionary and Exercises" by Anne Eisenberg, published by Oxford University Press. This unique handbook is an essential resource for writers, working scientists, engineers, and technical professionals, especially those for whom English is not a first language. One of the only books of its kind, Guide to Technical Editing shows how to edit technical writing for accuracy, clarity, and grammar. The workbook provides practical exercises for editing abstracts and presenting technical information from the reader's point of view, and includes a technical editor's glossary with stylebook entries as well as common terms.Aside from writing advice, it has much editing advice on improving sentences & paragraphs, ensuring clarity, section titling and table structure, explaining abbreviations and symbols, making footnotes/endnotes, etc.; as well as a good deal of advice on adjuncts to the writing, such as tables, graphs/charts, and illustrations and their proper placement and captioning. Also a checklist of what to check: data consistency between text and tables, name and citation accuracy, proper use of technical terms, formatting consistency, etc. An unusual and helpful feature is that most of the book has a running sidebar that presents summarized problems and solutions. Like a number of web-design manuals, this more general technical-editing work is full of examples of what not to do, and exactly why and what to do instead. Examples are broad, from biology to engineering to simple product documentation.The ''Dictionary'' section is a compact usage dictionary of troublesome terms, with grammar and punctuation tips, plus mini-articles on various subjects such as fonts & typefaces, decimals and other number handling, informative and indicative abstracts, copyediting & proofreading markup, instructional writing, layout, readability, referencing and sources, nomenclature, etc.Despite being published by Oxford, this is intended for an American readership and uses American spelling, quotation-mark style, etc.This PDF was converted from a DJVU file and OCRed. Book details: 192 pages, published 1992. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.