Details steps involved in publishing a book and provides a guide to usage.
This is the definitive text for questions of manuscript protocol, copyediting, style, grammar, and usage. For those who find The Chicago Manual of Style a bit cumbersome and sometimes ambigous, Words Into Type will be a welcome reference guide. With its easy-to-use index and definitive explanations, this third edition makes life simpler for writers, editors, and proofreaders. You may never need to know about frontispieces and imprimaturs, but if you deal with words, this is a wonderfully edifying, reassuring fount of clarity and wisdom.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Information on the non-existent fourth edition!:
I recently bought a replacement copy of this must-have guide (much better than Chicago, I'm afraid). Before that I'd been doing research to find a copy of an alleged fourth edition (since the third was from 1974!). The mysterious fourth ed. proved impossible to find despite having an ISBN number. I tracked down the author, retired Oklahoma State University Professor Thomas Warren, and asked him directly what was going on. Here's his reply: "Prentice-Hall cancelled the contract years ago, and even after... more info
Outstanding, albeit outdated, reference manual:
This manual is probably overlooked because of the fact that it was written before computers were used to perform most of the writing and publishing fuctions; however, most (if not ALL) of the grammar and style recommendations are still accurate today. Save yourself some money by buying a used copy.
In Really Good Shape:
I didn't expect this used book to be in such good shape, and I received it a couple of days after I ordered it.
Technical writing book:
Essential book for any kind of editor. My 30-year old copy needed replacing. Where else to look but Amazon? It came in less time than predicted. A treasure to me.
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