About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: American copy editors, Headlines, Proofreading, Style guides, The Chicago Manual of Style, The Elements of Style, The Complete Plain Words, Citation, Distributed Proofreaders, APA style, Parenthetical referencing, J'accuse, List of style guides, The MLA Style Manual, The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, AP Stylebook, Fact checker, A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Dewey Defeats Truman, Muphry's law, Hart's Rules, American Copy Editors Society, Sticks nix hick pix, Patricia T. O'Conner, Typographical personification, It's The Sun Wot Won It, News design, Text annotation, ISO 690, Lead paragraph, Theodore Menline Bernstein, List of American copy editors, Press check, Headlinese, Mush from the Wimp, The Elements of Typographic Style, The Rudiments of English Grammar, ASA style, Pam Robinson, The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, AMA Manual of Style, Melvin L. Barnet, The Craft of Research, Dele, Typographical syntax, Gramlee, Galley proof, John Murphy Award for Excellence in Copy Editing, The Gregg Reference Manual, Robinson Prize, Yahoo! Style Guide, ACS style, John McIntyre, The Bedford Handbook, William G. Connolly, Practical English Usage, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage, MHRA Style Guide, Dittography, Stet, Photo caption, Bill Walsh, ISO 5776. Excerpt: Proofreading (also proof-reading) is the reading of a galley proof or computer monitor to detect and correct production-errors of text or art. Proofreaders are expected to be consistently accurate by default because they occupy the last stage of typographic production before publication. A proof is a typeset version of copy or a manuscript page. They often contain typos introduced through both human error and bugs in programming code. Traditionally, a proofreader looks at an increme...
