Substance and Style: Instruction and Practice in Copyediting

Through in-depth discussions and examples, Substance & Style offers: instructions in grammar, usage, punctuation, and style instruction in the use of proper copyediting marks skill-building exercises and detailed follow-up discussions a comparison matrix of major style guides a glossary of common editorial terms a selection of pertinent readings on the editorial profession a bibliography of reference books for editors plus ... hundreds of tips on how to eliminate jargon organize citations and tables untangle dangling modifiers uncover smothered verbs give new life to passive prose know when to use who and whom, which and that remove noun strings make pronouns and their antecedents agree