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Tips and Tricks for New Copyeditors
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What is Copyediting? Copyediting is one of the last stages of the editing process in book publishing. Its purpose is to ensure a manuscript is consistent, grammatically correct, and aligned with the appropriate style guide. It takes place just before proofreading, which is the last step of the editorial process.…
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How eBooks Changed the Way We Read
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Authored by Cheyenne Clenney, UNG Press Intern A Brief History of eBooks The concept of eBooks goes back as far as the earliest rendition of the internet when Michael S. Hart digitized the world’s first eBook, the United States Declaration of Independence, in 1971 (Government Book Talk, Losowsky). Using ARPAnet,…
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The Relationship Between University Presses & Libraries
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Authored by UNG Press Intern Madelyn Huff | Banner Image “San Diego College Learning Resource – bookshelf” by Joe Crawford is licensed under CC-BY-2.0. Both university presses and libraries are committed to the promotion of scholarly research, the expansion of accessibility to new information, and the creation of this new…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Editing
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Authored by Madelyn Huff, UNG Press Intern | Banner Image “Stack of Books” by Heffloaf is licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0 To an outside perspective, editing can seem like a one-and-done process where an author, or editor, looks over a manuscript and fixes any spelling errors or formatting mistakes before completion. In…