Working Words
Revised edition
Elizabeth Manning Murphy JP DE
IPEd Distinguished Editor, BA Hons (Linguistics) FCES FSBT (UK) AFIML
[Lacuna]
2019
Copyright and publishing information
[Lacuna]
This completely revised edition published in 2019 by Lacuna Publishing
https://www.lacunapublishing.com
Lacuna is an imprint of Golden Orb Creative
PO Box 428, Armidale NSW 2350, Australia
https://www.goldenorbcreative.com
First edition published by Canberra Society of Editors, ACT, 2011
Copyright © Elizabeth Manning Murphy 2019
All rights reserved worldwide. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievals system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Australian Copyright Act 1968, without the permission of the publisher. All permissions enquiries should be made to the publisher at email [email protected].
Elizabeth Manning Murphy asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. Everything in this book is the opinion of the author and not necessarily the opinion of anyone else, unless so attributed by the author.
Editing by Dr Linda Nix, IPEd Accredited Editor, BA Hons (English) PhD Grad Dip (Computing)
Cover and internal design by Linda Nix of Golden Orb Creative, based on concepts by Carina Manning (used with permission)
Photographs supplied by the author
Illustrations and figures by Linda Nix/Carina Manning based on originals by the author
Typeset in Times New Roman (text), Myriad Pro (headings) and Optima (‘itchypencils’).
A National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication has been created for this title
ISBN 9781922198365 (paperback)
ISBN 9781922198372 (ebook)
Contents
Preface to the revised edition
Publisher’s note on pages in the ebook
Itchypencil 1: Collective editors
Chat 1: Working words: the editor’s job
Chat 2: Who exactly are you, editor?
Chat 3: Your friendly computer
Chat 5: Variety in editing jobs
Chat 7: Getting on with clients
Itchypencil 2: Oops! False advertising?
Part 2: Editor beware: ethical and legal considerations
Chat 8: Courtesy, cribs and copyright
Chat 10: Editing students’ work
Chat 11: The ethics of editing
Itchypencil 3: When ‘brief’ does not equal ‘plain’!
Part 3: The business of editing
Chat 14: Quoting: broad aspects
Chat 15: The proposal and quote
