Author and Editor at Work : : Making a Better Work / / Elsie Myers Stainton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Stainton, Elsie Myers,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (96 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. For Authors --; 2. For Editors --; 3. On Author-Editor Relations --; 4. The Bookshelf: The Uses of Dictionaries --; 5. More Books: Some Pointers on Style --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487574383; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487574383
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elsie Myers Stainton.

This is a small book of commonsense advice to authors and editors – how to practise their own crafts successfully, and how they may work most effectively with one another. ‘As managing editor of a publishing house,’ Stainton explains, ‘I have seen intelligent writers reject sensible improvements proposed by editors, and I have also seen experienced editors about to suggest unnecessary changes to authors. Often, though, the lively mix of good suggestions and a willing author accomplishes small wonders. That happy combination is what I aim to foster here.’ In separate sections, Stainton speaks first to authors, then to editors. A third section deals with relations between the two and a fourth provides an annotated critical bibliography of two kinds of key reference works – dictionaries and guide to style. Elise Stainton’s shrewd words will be of practical help to everyone who is or aspires to be an author or editor. They will interest all who have to write for a living.