Working Words. Elizabeth Manning Murphy

      Working Words

      Revised edition

      Elizabeth Manning Murphy JP DE

      IPEd Distinguished Editor, BA Hons (Linguistics) FCES FSBT (UK) AFIML

      [Lacuna]

      2019

      Copyright and publishing information

      [Lacuna]

      This completely revised edition published in 2019 by Lacuna Publishing

       https://www.lacunapublishing.com

      Lacuna is an imprint of Golden Orb Creative

      PO Box 428, Armidale NSW 2350, Australia

       https://www.goldenorbcreative.com

      First edition published by Canberra Society of Editors, ACT, 2011

      Copyright © Elizabeth Manning Murphy 2019

      All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievals system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Australian Copyright Act 1968, without the permission of the publisher. All permissions enquiries should be made to the publisher at email [email protected].

      Elizabeth Manning Murphy asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Everything in this book is the opinion of the author and not necessarily the opinion of anyone else, unless so attributed by the author.

      Editing by Dr Linda Nix, IPEd Accredited Editor, BA Hons (English) PhD Grad Dip (Computing)

      Cover and internal design by Linda Nix of Golden Orb Creative, based on concepts by Carina Manning (used with permission)

      Photographs supplied by the author

      Illustrations and figures by Linda Nix/Carina Manning based on originals by the author

      Typeset in Times New Roman (text), Myriad Pro (headings) and Optima (‘itchypencils’).

      A National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication has been created for this title

      ISBN 9781922198365 (paperback)

      ISBN 9781922198372 (ebook)

      Contents

       Preface to the first edition

       Preface to the revised edition

       Publisher’s note on pages in the ebook

       Itchypencil 1: Collective editors

       Part 1: The craft of editing

       Chat 1: Working words: the editor’s job

       Chat 2: Who exactly are you, editor?

       Chat 3: Your friendly computer

       Chat 4: On-screen editing

       Chat 5: Variety in editing jobs

       Chat 6: Seven deadly sins

       Chat 7: Getting on with clients

       Itchypencil 2: Oops! False advertising?

       Part 2: Editor beware: ethical and legal considerations

       Chat 8: Courtesy, cribs and copyright

       Chat 9: Disclaimers

       Chat 10: Editing students’ work

       Chat 11: The ethics of editing

       Itchypencil 3: When ‘brief’ does not equal ‘plain’!

       Part 3: The business of editing

       Chat 12: Project management

       Chat 13: Project definition

       Chat 14: Quoting: broad aspects

       Chat 15: The proposal and quote

       Chat 16: Invoicing

       Chat 17: Office organisation

       Chat 18: Editor, edit thyself

       Chat 19: Editing on the move

       Chat 20: Keeping in touch: emailing

       Chat 21: A roundup

       Itchypencil 4: A traveller’s tale

       Part 4: Grammar: some basics

       Chat 22: Why grammar?

       Chat 23: Rules, shmules!

       Chat 24: Parts of speech: some of the players

       Chat 25: Parts of speech: more of the players

       Chat 26: The arbitrating article

       Chat 27: Relationships

       Chat 28: Verbs: some basics

       Chat