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Turn your knack for language into a lucrative career
Must-know techniques and resources for maximizing your accuracy and
speed Interested in becoming a copyeditor or proofreader? Want to
know more about what each job entails? This friendly guide helps
you position yourself for success. Polish your skills, build a
winning resume and land the job you''ve always wanted. Books,
magazines, Web sites, corporate documents - find out how to improve
any type of publication and make yourself indispensable to writers,
editors, and your boss. Balance between style and rules Master the
art of the query Use proofreader symbols Edit and proof electronic
documents Build a solid freelancing career
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Suzanne Gilad is the founder of PaidToProofread.com. Over the
course of ten years, Sue proofread or copyedited over 1,200 books
for Random House, Simon Schuster, John Wiley Sons, St.
Martin''s Press, Oxford University Press, and Workman Publishing,
among others. Illustrating firsthand that proofreading and
copyediting can be profitable and fun while allowing additional
pursuits, Sue is also a successful voice-over artist based in New
York. You can hear her voice happily hawking products and playing
characters on national and regional radio and television. Thanks to
some unexpected proofreading projects on personal finance a few
years ago, a whole world of education in residual income opened for
Sue. She wrote The Real Estate Millionaire McGraw-Hill, 2005 with
her husband, Boaz Gilad. Sue currently leads seminars on multiple
streams of income, and her latest passion is to teach financial
freedom. Sue''s next book is the story of the creation of 15
millionaires in five years. Visit www.SueGilad.com to learn
more.
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Introduction
Part I: Welcome to the Word World
Chapter 1: Reading as a Job? Oh, Yes
Chapter 2: Jobs for Bookworms
Chapter 3: Other Publishing Opportunities
Part II: Conquering Copyediting
Chapter 4: So, What Does a Copyeditor Do?
Chapter 5: What Makes a Good Copyeditor Great
Chapter 6: A Handful of Copyediting Specialties
Chapter 7: The Copyediting Process in Action
Part III: Picking Up a Proofreading Career
Chapter 8: So, What Does a Proofreader Do?
Chapter 9: Mastering the Proofreading Symbols
Chapter 10: Dipping Your Pencil in the Proofreading Waters
Chapter 11: Watching a Proofreader in Action
Part IV: Adding to Your Repertoire
Chapter 12: Boning Up on Punctuation and Usage
Chapter 13: Dissecting Books and Magazines
Chapter 14: Balancing Between Style and Rules
Chapter 15: Creating and Using the All-Important Style Sheet
Chapter 16: Formatting a Manuscript
Chapter 17: Editing and Proofreading Electronically
Part V: Turning Your Skills into Paychecks
Chapter 18: Hunting for Work
Chapter 19: Preparing for a Freelance Career
Chapter 20: Keeping the Freelance Jobs Coming
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 21: Ten Keys to Success as a Copyeditor
Chapter 22: Ten Keys to Success as a Proofreader
Part VII: Appendixes
Appendix A: Commonly Misspelled Words
Appendix B: Glossary
Appendix C: Online Resources
Index.
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