Editing and Proofreading Guides

Once you get your first draft onto the page, the real work begins: It’s time to edit your writing so that your words convey what you intended.

Write, delete, and copy and paste (what was once known as editing), and then write some more. –from The Everything Improve Your Writing Book by Pamela Rice Hahn

	The Editor’s Toolbox: A Reference Guide for Beginners and Professionals by Buck Ryan, Michael O’Donnell, Leland B. Ryan (2001) Iowa State University Press
	Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing by Claire Kehrwald Cook (1986) Houghton Mifflin Co.
	McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook by Laura Killen Anderson (2005)
	Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne, Dave King (2004) HarperCollins
Additional Editing and Proofreading Guides
	Edit Yourself: A Manual for Everyone Who Works With Words by Bruce Ross-Larson (1996) W.W. Norton & Company
	Go Ahead, Proof It! by K. D. Sullivan (1996) Barrons Educational Series
	Powerful Proofreading Skills: Tips, Techniques and Tactics by Debra A. Smith, Helen R. Sutton (1994) Crisp Learning
	Rewrite Right!: Your Guide to Perfectly Polished Prose by Jan Venolia (2000) Ten Speed Press

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