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SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? The slot is usually the copy desk chief. Sometimes there's a formal deputy chief and/or assistant chief (s) (deputy outranks assistant); in other cases, certain rim editors are called upon to fill in as needed in the slot. Some places, I'm sure, all rim editors are considered qualified for this duty. Sometimes only one editor is inthe slot
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job SHARP POINTS: UPS AND DOWNS The names are K.D. Lang and E.E. Cummings. To use the lowercase style not only deprives readers of a crucial visual cue, it also opens the door to more egregious abuses of our capitalization system (see below). One caveat, of course, is that when you print "K.D. Lang" or "E.E. Cummings" without a footnote explaining your departure from thenorm
ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: CHATTING ABOUT HAPPIER TIMES f you write captions, listen here: 1. Don't state the obvious. We can see that he's waving, that they're shaking hands, that she's sitting at her desk. Tell us something we don't know. If WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? The slot is usually the copy desk chief. Sometimes there's a formal deputy chief and/or assistant chief (s) (deputy outranks assistant); in other cases, certain rim editors are called upon to fill in as needed in the slot. Some places, I'm sure, all rim editors are considered qualified for this duty. Sometimes only one editor is inthe slot
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job SHARP POINTS: UPS AND DOWNS The names are K.D. Lang and E.E. Cummings. To use the lowercase style not only deprives readers of a crucial visual cue, it also opens the door to more egregious abuses of our capitalization system (see below). One caveat, of course, is that when you print "K.D. Lang" or "E.E. Cummings" without a footnote explaining your departure from thenorm
ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: CHATTING ABOUT HAPPIER TIMES f you write captions, listen here: 1. Don't state the obvious. We can see that he's waving, that they're shaking hands, that she's sitting at her desk. Tell us something we don't know. If WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
THE SLOT: WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THE AUTHOR n 1979, the family up and moved to the suburbs of Phoenix -- Mesa, to be exact. I stayed in the area 10 years to the day, long enough to attend the University of Arizona, start my career at the now-defunct Phoenix Gazette and buy my first house, in the cow town-turned-suburbof Chandler.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
THE SLOT: SHARP POINTS How to be a good newbie Twenty questions, some you must ask and some you really, really should figure out yourself. A suspect word When criminals should be called criminals. SHARP POINTS: WHAT'S IN BETWEEN? Scripps Howard story on actor John Leguizamo mentions that he "has starred in films and TV projects ranging from 'Moulin Rouge' to'Arabian Nights.'
SHARP POINTS: MATHEMATICALLY CHALLENGED, AGAIN hat's wrong with the following statements? The Mexican state of Jalisco is 15 times larger than neighboring Colima. Covad's entry-level broadband service SHARP POINTS: TALKING HEADS STOP MAKING SENSE ecause cops use the word suspect to mean, essentially, subject, and because too many journalists are parrots who just repeat what cops say, too many ordinary people have lost sight of the word's very simple and rather obvious meaning: As a noun in reference to a crime, a suspect is a person suspected of committing that crime.Keep that in mind, write what you know and attribute what you don't SHARP POINTS: CAPITAL IDEAS how me most anybody's resume, most any restaurant menu, most any personal Web site, and I'm likely to cringe at a phenomenon I call arbitrary capitalization. 1 “STYLE UBER ALLES Rules That Aren’t . Bill Walsh. The Washington Post. ACES Hollywood. 2005 . MYTH: Style uber alles! Style is what it is. It doesn’t trump common sense. One big f’rinstance: Most stylebooks call for President Bush on first reference.Fine. SHARP POINTS: STAMP OUT STYLEBOOK ABUSE hapter 2 of my first book is about how to read a dictionary. You might think that's a waste of paper, but you'd be wrong. Stylebook entries are designed to be even more explicit in their explanations than dictionary definitions are, but writers and editors still manage tomiss the point.
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? The slot is usually the copy desk chief. Sometimes there's a formal deputy chief and/or assistant chief (s) (deputy outranks assistant); in other cases, certain rim editors are called upon to fill in as needed in the slot. Some places, I'm sure, all rim editors are considered qualified for this duty. Sometimes only one editor is inthe slot
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job SHARP POINTS: UPS AND DOWNS The names are K.D. Lang and E.E. Cummings. To use the lowercase style not only deprives readers of a crucial visual cue, it also opens the door to more egregious abuses of our capitalization system (see below). One caveat, of course, is that when you print "K.D. Lang" or "E.E. Cummings" without a footnote explaining your departure from thenorm
ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: CHATTING ABOUT HAPPIER TIMES f you write captions, listen here: 1. Don't state the obvious. We can see that he's waving, that they're shaking hands, that she's sitting at her desk. Tell us something we don't know. If WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? The slot is usually the copy desk chief. Sometimes there's a formal deputy chief and/or assistant chief (s) (deputy outranks assistant); in other cases, certain rim editors are called upon to fill in as needed in the slot. Some places, I'm sure, all rim editors are considered qualified for this duty. Sometimes only one editor is inthe slot
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job SHARP POINTS: UPS AND DOWNS The names are K.D. Lang and E.E. Cummings. To use the lowercase style not only deprives readers of a crucial visual cue, it also opens the door to more egregious abuses of our capitalization system (see below). One caveat, of course, is that when you print "K.D. Lang" or "E.E. Cummings" without a footnote explaining your departure from thenorm
ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: CHATTING ABOUT HAPPIER TIMES f you write captions, listen here: 1. Don't state the obvious. We can see that he's waving, that they're shaking hands, that she's sitting at her desk. Tell us something we don't know. If WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
THE SLOT: WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THE AUTHOR n 1979, the family up and moved to the suburbs of Phoenix -- Mesa, to be exact. I stayed in the area 10 years to the day, long enough to attend the University of Arizona, start my career at the now-defunct Phoenix Gazette and buy my first house, in the cow town-turned-suburbof Chandler.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
THE SLOT: SHARP POINTS How to be a good newbie Twenty questions, some you must ask and some you really, really should figure out yourself. A suspect word When criminals should be called criminals. SHARP POINTS: WHAT'S IN BETWEEN? Scripps Howard story on actor John Leguizamo mentions that he "has starred in films and TV projects ranging from 'Moulin Rouge' to'Arabian Nights.'
SHARP POINTS: MATHEMATICALLY CHALLENGED, AGAIN hat's wrong with the following statements? The Mexican state of Jalisco is 15 times larger than neighboring Colima. Covad's entry-level broadband service SHARP POINTS: TALKING HEADS STOP MAKING SENSE ecause cops use the word suspect to mean, essentially, subject, and because too many journalists are parrots who just repeat what cops say, too many ordinary people have lost sight of the word's very simple and rather obvious meaning: As a noun in reference to a crime, a suspect is a person suspected of committing that crime.Keep that in mind, write what you know and attribute what you don't SHARP POINTS: CAPITAL IDEAS how me most anybody's resume, most any restaurant menu, most any personal Web site, and I'm likely to cringe at a phenomenon I call arbitrary capitalization. 1 “STYLE UBER ALLES Rules That Aren’t . Bill Walsh. The Washington Post. ACES Hollywood. 2005 . MYTH: Style uber alles! Style is what it is. It doesn’t trump common sense. One big f’rinstance: Most stylebooks call for President Bush on first reference.Fine. SHARP POINTS: STAMP OUT STYLEBOOK ABUSE hapter 2 of my first book is about how to read a dictionary. You might think that's a waste of paper, but you'd be wrong. Stylebook entries are designed to be even more explicit in their explanations than dictionary definitions are, but writers and editors still manage tomiss the point.
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? The slot is usually the copy desk chief. Sometimes there's a formal deputy chief and/or assistant chief (s) (deputy outranks assistant); in other cases, certain rim editors are called upon to fill in as needed in the slot. Some places, I'm sure, all rim editors are considered qualified for this duty. Sometimes only one editor is inthe slot
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job SHARP POINTS: UPS AND DOWNS The names are K.D. Lang and E.E. Cummings. To use the lowercase style not only deprives readers of a crucial visual cue, it also opens the door to more egregious abuses of our capitalization system (see below). One caveat, of course, is that when you print "K.D. Lang" or "E.E. Cummings" without a footnote explaining your departure from thenorm
ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: CHATTING ABOUT HAPPIER TIMES f you write captions, listen here: 1. Don't state the obvious. We can see that he's waving, that they're shaking hands, that she's sitting at her desk. Tell us something we don't know. If WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? The slot is usually the copy desk chief. Sometimes there's a formal deputy chief and/or assistant chief (s) (deputy outranks assistant); in other cases, certain rim editors are called upon to fill in as needed in the slot. Some places, I'm sure, all rim editors are considered qualified for this duty. Sometimes only one editor is inthe slot
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job SHARP POINTS: UPS AND DOWNS The names are K.D. Lang and E.E. Cummings. To use the lowercase style not only deprives readers of a crucial visual cue, it also opens the door to more egregious abuses of our capitalization system (see below). One caveat, of course, is that when you print "K.D. Lang" or "E.E. Cummings" without a footnote explaining your departure from thenorm
ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: CHATTING ABOUT HAPPIER TIMES f you write captions, listen here: 1. Don't state the obvious. We can see that he's waving, that they're shaking hands, that she's sitting at her desk. Tell us something we don't know. If WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
THE SLOT: WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THE AUTHOR n 1979, the family up and moved to the suburbs of Phoenix -- Mesa, to be exact. I stayed in the area 10 years to the day, long enough to attend the University of Arizona, start my career at the now-defunct Phoenix Gazette and buy my first house, in the cow town-turned-suburbof Chandler.
THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
THE SLOT: SHARP POINTS How to be a good newbie Twenty questions, some you must ask and some you really, really should figure out yourself. A suspect word When criminals should be called criminals. SHARP POINTS: WHAT'S IN BETWEEN? Scripps Howard story on actor John Leguizamo mentions that he "has starred in films and TV projects ranging from 'Moulin Rouge' to'Arabian Nights.'
SHARP POINTS: MATHEMATICALLY CHALLENGED, AGAIN hat's wrong with the following statements? The Mexican state of Jalisco is 15 times larger than neighboring Colima. Covad's entry-level broadband service SHARP POINTS: TALKING HEADS STOP MAKING SENSE ecause cops use the word suspect to mean, essentially, subject, and because too many journalists are parrots who just repeat what cops say, too many ordinary people have lost sight of the word's very simple and rather obvious meaning: As a noun in reference to a crime, a suspect is a person suspected of committing that crime.Keep that in mind, write what you know and attribute what you don't SHARP POINTS: CAPITAL IDEAS how me most anybody's resume, most any restaurant menu, most any personal Web site, and I'm likely to cringe at a phenomenon I call arbitrary capitalization. 1 “STYLE UBER ALLES Rules That Aren’t . Bill Walsh. The Washington Post. ACES Hollywood. 2005 . MYTH: Style uber alles! Style is what it is. It doesn’t trump common sense. One big f’rinstance: Most stylebooks call for President Bush on first reference.Fine. SHARP POINTS: STAMP OUT STYLEBOOK ABUSE hapter 2 of my first book is about how to read a dictionary. You might think that's a waste of paper, but you'd be wrong. Stylebook entries are designed to be even more explicit in their explanations than dictionary definitions are, but writers and editors still manage tomiss the point.
MUHAMMAD ALI: THE GREATEST WEB SITE Ali stands over Sonny Liston in the infamous one-round rematch on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. Visit the new BOXING LIBRARY store to buy Ali books, DVDs and more! THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR?WHAT IS A DEPUTY CEOWHAT IS A DEPUTY OFFICERAPA DESK COPYCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS DESK COPYELSEVIER DESK COPYMCGRAW HILL DESK COPY tories come to the copy desk after a first edit -- the "substantive," or "content," edit, by an "assignment," or "originating," editor. At most any daily, this means local copy is edited by a city or metro editor or one of that editor's deputies or assistants. SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: SHARP POINTS How to be a good newbie Twenty questions, some you must ask and some you really, really should figure out yourself. A suspect word When criminals should be called criminals. LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ops. I guess those who disagree would make that "People overrate the active voice." See what I mean? Sometimes the object of a sentence is more important than the subject. MUHAMMAD ALI: THE GREATEST WEB SITE Ali stands over Sonny Liston in the infamous one-round rematch on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. Visit the new BOXING LIBRARY store to buy Ali books, DVDs and more! THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR?WHAT IS A DEPUTY CEOWHAT IS A DEPUTY OFFICERAPA DESK COPYCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS DESK COPYELSEVIER DESK COPYMCGRAW HILL DESK COPY tories come to the copy desk after a first edit -- the "substantive," or "content," edit, by an "assignment," or "originating," editor. At most any daily, this means local copy is edited by a city or metro editor or one of that editor's deputies or assistants. SHARP POINTS: YOU MUST BE NEW HERE ay you have a chance to get a job at the Daily Planet, editing Clark Kent’s copy. Or maybe you’ve secured a tryout, or maybe you already have the job, or at least an internship. THE SLOT: WHAT'S A SLOT MAN? n the old days, when everybody was a "man" and copy editors still worked with pencils and paper, copy desks were often horseshoe-shaped. Rank-and-file editors -- "rim men" -- sat around the outside, while the guy in charge sat in the "slot" so he could reach all the rim guyswhen he
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? opy editors check written material, usually as the final step before it is set into type, to correct errors in grammar, spelling, usage and style (in this case, style refers to a given publication's guidelines for consistency in how words, phrases, typographical elements, etc., are to be used -- or not used).. Copy editors are not proofreaders, although reading proofs is often part of the job ANOTHER SLICE OF LIFE: THE PHANTOM LIMBS About the author Bill Walsh, who is now old, attended the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1984 and received a bachelor's degree in journalism, which he put to use at The Phoenix Gazette, The Washington Times and The Washington Post, where he is now the chief copy editorfor national news.
WHITE TRASH CUISINE: KRAFT DINNER AND TUNA SAUCE White Trash Cuisine: Kraft Dinner and Tuna Sauce First and last in a series -- because I'm now a man of wealth and taste and all -- but this dish is so good I will never renounce it. THE SLOT: SHARP POINTS How to be a good newbie Twenty questions, some you must ask and some you really, really should figure out yourself. A suspect word When criminals should be called criminals. LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE ops. I guess those who disagree would make that "People overrate the active voice." See what I mean? Sometimes the object of a sentence is more important than the subject. MUHAMMAD ALI: THE GREATEST WEB SITE Ali stands over Sonny Liston in the infamous one-round rematch on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. Visit the new BOXING LIBRARY store to buy Ali books, DVDs and more! THE SLOT: A SPOT FOR COPY EDITORS Bill Walsh, a Washington Post copy editor who wrote three irreverent books about his craft, noting evolutions and devolutions of language, the indispensability of hyphens and his hostility toward semicolons, and distinctions - for the sake of clarity - between Playboy Playmates and Playboy Bunnies, died March 15 at a hospice center in Arlington,Va.
THE SLOT: WHAT EXACTLY IS A COPY EDITOR? m, are you sure you want to do this? Copy editing isn't nearly as great a career as readers of this site might be led to believe -- and I'm trying pretty hard not to lead readers to believe it's a greatcareer.
SHARP POINTS: UPS AND DOWNS roper nouns are capitalized. All caps is for initialisms and acronyms. We use the modern English alphabet when writing for modern Englishspeakers.
LAPSING INTO A COMMA: ORDER NOW! LAPSING INTO A COMMA is an "Elements of Style" for the 21st century. Author Bill Walsh of The Washington Post and The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors addresses not only the usual usage issues (split infinitives, that vs. which, a historic vs. an historic), but also some topics too new or esoteric to be found in the old style manuals (e-mail vs. email, how to tell a Playmate from a Playboy Bunny SHARP POINTS: STAMP OUT STYLEBOOK ABUSE hapter 2 of my first book is about how to read a dictionary. You might think that's a waste of paper, but you'd be wrong. Stylebook entries are designed to be even more explicit in their explanations than dictionary definitions are, but writers and editors still manage tomiss the point.
SHARP POINTS: CHATTING ABOUT HAPPIER TIMES f you write captions, listen here: 1. Don't state the obvious. We can see that he's waving, that they're shaking hands, that she's sitting at her desk. Tell us something we don't know. If SHARP POINTS: IF I'M WRONG, I'M NOT RIGHT eaningless sentences are meaningless. See? The trouble is, meaninglessness isn't always as obvious as the above tautology. The following examples are paraphrased from AM radio advertising, but you'll find similar nonsense even in more literate media. SHARP POINTS: STAY PARALLEL 'm always trying to make this point, and I never can come up with a good example. But one day, as I was typing away on the ol' Pentium, I heard CNN in the background: SHARP POINTS: CAPITAL IDEAS how me most anybody's resume, most any restaurant menu, most any personal Web site, and I'm likely to cringe at a phenomenon I call arbitrary capitalization. A Spot for Copy Editorssince 1995
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Bill Walsh, 1961-2017 Bill Walsh, a Washington Post copy editor who wrote three irreverent books about his craft, noting evolutions and devolutions of language, the indispensability of hyphens and his hostility toward semicolons, and distinctions - for the sake of clarity - between Playboy Playmates and Playboy Bunnies, died March 15 at a hospice center in Arlington,Va. He was 55.
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