This is completed downloadable of Solution Manual for Proofreading and Editing Precision, 6th Edition
Product Details:
- ISBN-10 : 0538450452
- ISBN-13 : 978-0538450454
- Author:
Proofreading and Editing Precision is a comprehensive, activity-oriented book designed to sharpen proofreading and editing skills. It provides a thorough review of the rules governing language arts and applies them in business documents. Computerized exercises are integrated to give users practice in proofreading, editing, and formatting Word 2007 documents just as they would in everyday situations.
Table of Content:
- Chapter 1: Errors! Errors! Errors!
- Importance of Proofreading
- What Is Proofreading?
- What Kinds of Errors Are Most Common?
- Where Can a Proofreader Get Help?
- Methods of Proofreading
- What’s Ahead?
- Chapter 2: Keyboarding Errors
- Spelling Errors
- Transposition Errors
- Added Copy Errors
- Incorrect Letters
- Omitted Copy Errors
- Numerical Errors
- Spelling and Word Usage
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- Word Division
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- Chapter 3: Proofreading and Editing on the Computer
- Introduction
- On-Screen Proofreading
- Information Processing Tools
- Communicating Online
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- Chapter 4: Capitalization Errors
- Capitalization
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 5: Abbreviation Errors and Rough Drafts
- Abbreviations
- Rough Drafts
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE EXERCISE
- Chapter 6: Number Expression Errors
- Numbers Expressed as Words
- Numbers Expressed as Figures
- Zip Codes
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Project 1: Scholarship Search
- Chapter 7: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Sentence Structure
- Sentence Fragments
- Singular and Plural Nouns
- Intervening Modifiers
- Compound Subjects
- Collective Nouns
- Indefinite Pronouns
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 8: Pronoun Problems
- Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement
- The Case of the Pronoun
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 9: Sentence Construction
- Sentence Elements
- Parallel Structure in Sentences
- Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers
- Bias-Free Language
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 10: Comma Errors
- The Importance of Punctuation Marks
- The Comma
- Other Comma Uses
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 11: Other Punctuation Errors
- The Period, The Question Mark, and The Exclamation Mark
- The Semicolon
- The Colon
- The Apostrophe
- Underscoring and Italics
- Quotation Marks
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 12: Format Errors: Letters and Memos
- Format
- Letters
- Interoffice Memorandums (Memos)
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 13: Format Errors: Reports and Job Search Documents
- Reports
- Job Search Documents
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Chapter 14: Editing for Content, Clarity, and Conciseness
- What Is Editing?
- Editing for Content
- Editing for Clarity
- Editing for Conciseness
- PROOFREADING APPLICATIONS
- PROOFREADING AT THE COMPUTER
- CUMULATIVE APPLICATION
- Project 2: Investment Company
- PageNors Investments
- Appendix
- GUIDELINES FOR WORD DIVISION
- CONFUSED WORDS
- FREQUENTLY MISSPELLED WORDS
- COMMONLY MISSPELLED U.S. CITIES
- SPELLINGS AND ABBREVIATIONS OF STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES
- Index