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Copy Editing

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Copy editing is a most important and time-consuming task for those involved in the field. It requires the sensitive editorial handling of print material of every kind. And it requires the editor’s close attention to a document’s every detail, its format, and all of its elements; a thorough knowledge of what to look for and of the style to be followed as desired by the author or client; and the ability to make quick, logical, objective, justifiable, and defensible decisions in the correction of spelling, grammar, punctuation, terminology, sentence structure, clarity, conciseness, tone and voice, inconsistencies, and typographical errors. Valued editors are those who know editorial and factual things that others don’t know and who offer keen understanding of an author’s need to advance communication.

To begin with, copy editors are thoroughly familiar with and comfortable applying the universally accepted editorial and typographic marks and symbols&ndashas described in the Chicago Manual of Style and summarized under proofreader’s marks in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition&ndashthat are commonly understood by compositors working in English.

The editorial function comprises two processes: mechanical editing and substantive editing. Mechanical editing involves a close reading, with an eye on consistency of capitalization, spelling, and hyphenation and other end-of-line word breaks; agreement between verbs and subjects; scores of other matters of syntax; punctuation; beginning and ending quotation marks and parentheses; number of ellipsis points; numbers given either as figures or as words; and hundreds of other, similar details of grammatical, editorial, and typographic style.

In addition to regularizing those details of style, the copy editor is expected to catch infelicities of expression that mar an author’s prose and impede communication. Such matters include but are by no means limited to dangling participles, misplaced modifiers, mixed metaphors, unclear antecedents, unintentional redundancies, faulty attempts at parallel construction, mistaken junction, overuse of an author’s pet word or phrase, unintentional repetition of words, race or gender or geographic bias, and hyphenating in the predicate, unless, of course, the hyphenated term is an entry in the dictionary and therefore permanently hyphenated in every grammatical case. Job seekers, especially, need to attend to such details in their executive r

Copy Editing

Sunday, May 31st, 2009

Copy editing is a most important and time-consuming task for those involved in the field. It requires the sensitive editorial handling of print material of every kind. And it requires the editor’s close attention to a document’s every detail, its format, and all of its elements; a thorough knowledge of what to look for and of the style to be followed as desired by the author or client; and the ability to make quick, logical, objective, justifiable, and defensible decisions in the correction of spelling, grammar, punctuation, terminology, sentence structure, clarity, conciseness, tone and voice, inconsistencies, and typographical errors. Valued editors are those who know editorial and factual things that others don’t know and who offer keen understanding of an author’s need to advance communication.

To begin with, copy editors are thoroughly familiar with and comfortable applying the universally accepted editorial and typographic marks and symbols&ndashas described in the Chicago Manual of Style and summarized under proofreader’s marks in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition&ndashthat are commonly understood by compositors working in English.

The editorial function comprises two processes: mechanical editing and substantive editing. Mechanical editing involves a close reading, with an eye on consistency of capitalization, spelling, and hyphenation and other end-of-line word breaks; agreement between verbs and subjects; scores of other matters of syntax; punctuation; beginning and ending quotation marks and parentheses; number of ellipsis points; numbers given either as figures or as words; and hundreds of other, similar details of grammatical, editorial, and typographic style.

In addition to regularizing those details of style, the copy editor is expected to catch infelicities of expression that mar an author’s prose and impede communication. Such matters include but are by no means limited to dangling participles, misplaced modifiers, mixed metaphors, unclear antecedents, unintentional redundancies, faulty attempts at parallel construction, mistaken junction, overuse of an author’s pet word or phrase, unintentional repetition of words, race or gender or geographic bias, and hyphenating in the predicate, unless, of course, the hyphenated term is an entry in the dictionary and therefore permanently hyphenated in every grammatical case. Job seekers, especially, need to attend to such details in their executive r

Creative Writing Ideas - How To Have Them

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Are you waiting and hoping for creative writing ideas? Why not use some simple techniques to produce as many ideas as you will need? Here are a few to get you started.

Combine Stories For Creative Writing Ideas

There is a technique called “concept combination” which is to create new products to sell. Use it to create new stories, and it is usually good for a few laughs and a few ideas as well. All you have to do is imaginatively combine old stories into new ones. For the most creative ideas, use stories which are unrelated in their theme.

Suppose you start with the biblical story of Adam and Eve, and combine it with the movie, “Star Wars.” Perhaps in the new story a man and a woman are placed alone on a new planet, as an experiment to see what will happen over the centuries. Would they or their future offspring develop our same ideas about God and morality?

Get crazy if you want. “King Kong,” and “Romeo and Juliette” could become a story about when apes learn to speak, and the first human-ape romantic relationship develops. The couple is of course rejected by ape and human society. How about “Frankenstein” and “Gone With The Wind?” Start dreaming up those new creative writing ideas.

More Ways To Have Creative Writing Ideas

Make a list of what is most important to you. Take anything from that list, and find a story in it. For example, if honesty is important to you, create a story populated with characters that are defined by how honest or dishonest they are, and show the consequences of this trait. If there is some political principle that is important to you, imagine new stories which show what happens when this principle is followed - or when it isn’t.

Make a list of the stories most like. Start with any story you really like, and think about how you would have told it, or how it could be told. The start writing to see if the idea “grabs” you. Romeo and Juliet has been successfully retold a hundred ways in books and movies, under many titles. Why not find a formula you like, which has been proven to work, and write your own updated version?

Watch the evening news and make a list of the stories. This source is mined by television shows all the time. Try to add a twist that will get the story read. For example, take a real life issue that is in the news and approach it from a different perspective. Perhaps it could be a story of a businessman who profiteers after a hurricane, but you find a way find a way to make him the good guy.

One of the best ways to get ideas is to write anything right now. The English writer Graham Green attributes his success to a simple habit: He forced himself to write at least 500 words daily, whether he felt like it or not. Creative inspiration can strike at any time, but it strikes more often when there is work instead of waiting. Just start writing and you’ll have more creative writing ideas.

Creative Writing Ideas - How To Have Them

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Are you waiting and hoping for creative writing ideas? Why not use some simple techniques to produce as many ideas as you will need? Here are a few to get you started.

Combine Stories For Creative Writing Ideas

There is a technique called “concept combination” which is to create new products to sell. Use it to create new stories, and it is usually good for a few laughs and a few ideas as well. All you have to do is imaginatively combine old stories into new ones. For the most creative ideas, use stories which are unrelated in their theme.

Suppose you start with the biblical story of Adam and Eve, and combine it with the movie, “Star Wars.” Perhaps in the new story a man and a woman are placed alone on a new planet, as an experiment to see what will happen over the centuries. Would they or their future offspring develop our same ideas about God and morality?

Get crazy if you want. “King Kong,” and “Romeo and Juliette” could become a story about when apes learn to speak, and the first human-ape romantic relationship develops. The couple is of course rejected by ape and human society. How about “Frankenstein” and “Gone With The Wind?” Start dreaming up those new creative writing ideas.

More Ways To Have Creative Writing Ideas

Make a list of what is most important to you. Take anything from that list, and find a story in it. For example, if honesty is important to you, create a story populated with characters that are defined by how honest or dishonest they are, and show the consequences of this trait. If there is some political principle that is important to you, imagine new stories which show what happens when this principle is followed - or when it isn’t.

Make a list of the stories most like. Start with any story you really like, and think about how you would have told it, or how it could be told. The start writing to see if the idea “grabs” you. Romeo and Juliet has been successfully retold a hundred ways in books and movies, under many titles. Why not find a formula you like, which has been proven to work, and write your own updated version?

Watch the evening news and make a list of the stories. This source is mined by television shows all the time. Try to add a twist that will get the story read. For example, take a real life issue that is in the news and approach it from a different perspective. Perhaps it could be a story of a businessman who profiteers after a hurricane, but you find a way find a way to make him the good guy.

One of the best ways to get ideas is to write anything right now. The English writer Graham Green attributes his success to a simple habit: He forced himself to write at least 500 words daily, whether he felt like it or not. Creative inspiration can strike at any time, but it strikes more often when there is work instead of waiting. Just start writing and you’ll have more creative writing ideas.

Cross Pens: As Gifts And Starting A Writing Career

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Realistically, budding writers get a kick out of signing their manuscripts with a flourish. Why not give them Cross pens to spur them on to greater heights? If you are one of these wannabes, you can also give yourself a set; these writing tips will get you going.

Inkwell of Ideas and Cross Pens

So you’ve seen those beautiful Cross pens in different designs and colors. If you want one for yourself, go ahead. You deserve something extra special for all the hard work you’ve done. Come to think about it, if you want one, your friends will want these too, especially the budding writer who hang on every word written by Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, and other writers.

To develop and shape yours and your friend’s writing prospects, get books on writing that are widely available in bookstores and in online shops. Write a special message on the inside front cover for that warm encouragement - your friend will need it.

Or you can tell your friend to start looking at the world around him and beyond his white picket fence. That’s how a writing career starts. You must also have an inkwell of ideas and a rich repertoire of words. Those Cross pens will add that glamour and glitz towards the efforts.

Starting A Writing Career Made Easy

You’ll be surprised that some of the writers that took up the challenge of pen and paper were not all that writing experts. Some did not even have the opportunity to finish a degree but made a good career at writing. If you’re thinking of pursuing a writing career online, or suspect that your son or daughter has the inclination, help that child along.

If you want to make extra money, here are some tips for making a lucrative writing career online that will provide you the luxury of collecting those adorable Cross pens:

1. Join different blog sites. Upload your first blog and get published in that site.

2. Prepare your portfolio and resume, so whenever you are asked for these, they’re all ready.

3. Join a network providing free writing jobs online.

4. Read up reading tips on different sites.

5. Buy those ebooks from reputable sites.

Keep on writing and reading. No matter how depleted your think tank, you’ll find the way towards a filled blank page. Experts advice you to be critical of your own work. Once you are 100% satisfied with your effort, have these posted in blog sites. That’s how you’ll get noticed.

Thoughts on Giving Cross Pens

Everybody would love Cross pens for gifts. When giving these out, write a special greeting to make the recipient special. A kind thank-you note and recognition of their efforts will match the gift in value and importance.

A busy executive will appreciate pen refills if she or he already has a collection of this pens; add a classy pen holder and he or she is set for another year of document and check signing. If you’re giving pens to friends, have these individually engraved with their names. It won’t seem like a hastily thought-of gift.

For the budding writer - give a set of Cross Pens and a how-to-write book to go with it. Your gift will go a long way towards the making of a new J.K. Rowlings. Who knows? And all this started out with a thoughtful gift.

Cross Pens: As Gifts And Starting A Writing Career

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Realistically, budding writers get a kick out of signing their manuscripts with a flourish. Why not give them Cross pens to spur them on to greater heights? If you are one of these wannabes, you can also give yourself a set; these writing tips will get you going.

Inkwell of Ideas and Cross Pens

So you’ve seen those beautiful Cross pens in different designs and colors. If you want one for yourself, go ahead. You deserve something extra special for all the hard work you’ve done. Come to think about it, if you want one, your friends will want these too, especially the budding writer who hang on every word written by Joyce Carol Oates, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, and other writers.

To develop and shape yours and your friend’s writing prospects, get books on writing that are widely available in bookstores and in online shops. Write a special message on the inside front cover for that warm encouragement - your friend will need it.

Or you can tell your friend to start looking at the world around him and beyond his white picket fence. That’s how a writing career starts. You must also have an inkwell of ideas and a rich repertoire of words. Those Cross pens will add that glamour and glitz towards the efforts.

Starting A Writing Career Made Easy

You’ll be surprised that some of the writers that took up the challenge of pen and paper were not all that writing experts. Some did not even have the opportunity to finish a degree but made a good career at writing. If you’re thinking of pursuing a writing career online, or suspect that your son or daughter has the inclination, help that child along.

If you want to make extra money, here are some tips for making a lucrative writing career online that will provide you the luxury of collecting those adorable Cross pens:

1. Join different blog sites. Upload your first blog and get published in that site.

2. Prepare your portfolio and resume, so whenever you are asked for these, they’re all ready.

3. Join a network providing free writing jobs online.

4. Read up reading tips on different sites.

5. Buy those ebooks from reputable sites.

Keep on writing and reading. No matter how depleted your think tank, you’ll find the way towards a filled blank page. Experts advice you to be critical of your own work. Once you are 100% satisfied with your effort, have these posted in blog sites. That’s how you’ll get noticed.

Thoughts on Giving Cross Pens

Everybody would love Cross pens for gifts. When giving these out, write a special greeting to make the recipient special. A kind thank-you note and recognition of their efforts will match the gift in value and importance.

A busy executive will appreciate pen refills if she or he already has a collection of this pens; add a classy pen holder and he or she is set for another year of document and check signing. If you’re giving pens to friends, have these individually engraved with their names. It won’t seem like a hastily thought-of gift.

For the budding writer - give a set of Cross Pens and a how-to-write book to go with it. Your gift will go a long way towards the making of a new J.K. Rowlings. Who knows? And all this started out with a thoughtful gift.

Cross Pens: Putting Your Imagination Into Words

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Writing as an Art

Not many are born writers but for sure, there are a talented few. Many view writing as a mode of human expression but for some, it is also a form of art. If a painter creates majestic and colorful artworks and masterpieces using a brush and a canvas, a writer uses his or her pen to appropriately blend wonderful words and sentences into one engaging literary artwork. For a writer, it all starts to one’s boundless imagination, a conjuring of thoughts and mental pictures all fueled by one’s creative ideas. These ideas are influenced by one’s biases or experiences but either way, a writer’s great perspective on things cannot be denied.

Putting Into Words

Writers can always think of ideas every single day, as long as their brains never cease to function. But putting into words all the thoughts created inside one’s head is a different story. That’s where the challenge for a writer begins. And so are the questions. How will a writer be able to convey his or her thoughts to the readers without sounding too conventional, stereotypical or bland? What will be the style of writing that he or she will employ? And what will be the structure of the article that a writer will use in order to coherently present a series of great ideas to people?

Start Writing

Usually, it is quite easy to know for oneself if one has a passion for writing. Not only you will find a potential writer brimming with creative ideas but you will also find him holding a paper or pencil almost all the time. Or if a writer is already technological, then he or she might be typing in the keyboard most of the time as he or she maintains an online blog or journal perhaps. Whatever might be the case, a writer views a pen not just a simple tool for writing but the main life of his writing career. Without a pen, there will be nothing that will serve as a bridge to channel out all the ideas that are conjured one’s head. After all, many writers live up to the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Cross Pens: Your Excellent Choice

As we view the importance of pen on a writer’s life, we now search for possible options of choosing the best pen that suits every writer’s style. However, there are a few types of pen that can totally guide a writer’s way towards a successful literary expression of one’s personal ideas. Cross pens are one of them.

As many would say and recommend, cross pens are great writing tools that combine function and form to unleash the best writer in you. Crafted with sleek designs and armed with state-of-the-art writing technology, one won’t surely go wrong on choosing cross pens as a writer’s way of expressing him or herself. And like many other pen products, almost all cross pens can be personalized so that a writer will really feel the immense attachment or ownership that he or she associates to a specific pen.

There are surely many types of cross pens available for anyone, and not just for a writer. Most cross pens have their own catchy brands like Townsend cross pens, Apogee cross pens, Classic Century cross pens and a lot more. There are also desk sets that can be bought for one to properly store one’s cross pens. And just in case one’s cross pen will run out of ink, one doesn’t really need to buy a new one as cross pen refills are readily available for usage.

These and a lot more benefits await for those writers, or even non-writers, who will decide to choose using cross pens as their ideal pens suited for anyone’s lifestyle.

Cross Pens: Putting Your Imagination Into Words

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Writing as an Art

Not many are born writers but for sure, there are a talented few. Many view writing as a mode of human expression but for some, it is also a form of art. If a painter creates majestic and colorful artworks and masterpieces using a brush and a canvas, a writer uses his or her pen to appropriately blend wonderful words and sentences into one engaging literary artwork. For a writer, it all starts to one’s boundless imagination, a conjuring of thoughts and mental pictures all fueled by one’s creative ideas. These ideas are influenced by one’s biases or experiences but either way, a writer’s great perspective on things cannot be denied.

Putting Into Words

Writers can always think of ideas every single day, as long as their brains never cease to function. But putting into words all the thoughts created inside one’s head is a different story. That’s where the challenge for a writer begins. And so are the questions. How will a writer be able to convey his or her thoughts to the readers without sounding too conventional, stereotypical or bland? What will be the style of writing that he or she will employ? And what will be the structure of the article that a writer will use in order to coherently present a series of great ideas to people?

Start Writing

Usually, it is quite easy to know for oneself if one has a passion for writing. Not only you will find a potential writer brimming with creative ideas but you will also find him holding a paper or pencil almost all the time. Or if a writer is already technological, then he or she might be typing in the keyboard most of the time as he or she maintains an online blog or journal perhaps. Whatever might be the case, a writer views a pen not just a simple tool for writing but the main life of his writing career. Without a pen, there will be nothing that will serve as a bridge to channel out all the ideas that are conjured one’s head. After all, many writers live up to the saying that the pen is mightier than the sword.

Cross Pens: Your Excellent Choice

As we view the importance of pen on a writer’s life, we now search for possible options of choosing the best pen that suits every writer’s style. However, there are a few types of pen that can totally guide a writer’s way towards a successful literary expression of one’s personal ideas. Cross pens are one of them.

As many would say and recommend, cross pens are great writing tools that combine function and form to unleash the best writer in you. Crafted with sleek designs and armed with state-of-the-art writing technology, one won’t surely go wrong on choosing cross pens as a writer’s way of expressing him or herself. And like many other pen products, almost all cross pens can be personalized so that a writer will really feel the immense attachment or ownership that he or she associates to a specific pen.

There are surely many types of cross pens available for anyone, and not just for a writer. Most cross pens have their own catchy brands like Townsend cross pens, Apogee cross pens, Classic Century cross pens and a lot more. There are also desk sets that can be bought for one to properly store one’s cross pens. And just in case one’s cross pen will run out of ink, one doesn’t really need to buy a new one as cross pen refills are readily available for usage.

These and a lot more benefits await for those writers, or even non-writers, who will decide to choose using cross pens as their ideal pens suited for anyone’s lifestyle.

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

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