Creative Editing - Softcover

Bowles, Dorothy A.; Borden, Diane L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495095710 ISBN 13: 9780495095712

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2007

CREATIVE EDITING has been consistently praised by reviewers for its comprehensive coverage, excellent organization, and contemporary content. The Fifth Edition continues to live up to this reputation through consistent presentation, reinforcement, and practical application of editing concepts. The book covers all aspects of editing for print and online media, and provides ample practice exercises for students to perfect the principles they are learning. Beginning with basic language skills, the authors guide the reader through every phase of a professional copy editor's job. The book's practical textbook/workbook approach provides a good framework that encourages students to practice their skills as they learn.

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About the Author:

Dorothy A. Bowles is a Journalism Professor at the University of Tennessee, where she teaches courses in editing, political communications, and communications law and ethics. She previously taught editing and law for nine years at the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. She has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas, Texas and Louisiana. She has also worked in corporate and school public relations.

Review:

"I adopted CREATIVE EDITING because it was one of the two best texts for my course. I have taught this basic course for 15 years and there are only two texts I would ever adopt."

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