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Editing Canadian English - Second Edition - Revised, Updated, and Redesigned

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By: Editors' Assoc Of Canada
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The essential Canadian guide – and reference shelf companion to The Chicago Manual of Style and The Canadian Encyclopedia.

The first edition (published in 1987 and selling over 7000 copies) established itself as an indispensable tool for editors, writers, journalists, government employees, students, teachers, librarians, copywriters, and marketing and public relations people – in short, anyone who uses Canadian English.

Editing Canadian English tackles the tricky style issues of writing in "Canadian" and sorts out the distinctions between British and American editorial style and language usage. Overall, this guide outlines where convention dictates certain usage and where a style decision comes down to choice. The four authors, all seasoned professionals with over one hundred years of editing experience among them, show readers how to make their own informed and consistent choices when dealing with peculiarly Canadian questions of usage.

PRODUCT DETAILS

Publisher: Macfarlane Walter & Ross
Pub. Date: 15th May 2000
Catalog: Book
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 272
Ean: 9781551990453
Isbn: 1551990458

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USER REVIEWS

It's only a bit ironic that this book is only available on a US site!
~ Written on Mar 27, 2006. 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.

This book, Editing Canadian English 2nd ed. (2000), is an extremely useful guide for those of us who write or edit in Canada, and as far as I know the *only* copyediting book written from a Canadian perspective and for a Canadian audience. It doubles as a grammar textbook, in that it gives the basic errors that most of us make while we write (capitalisation, spelling, punctuation, etc.), but it also includes chapters on bias, Canada-specific measurements, documentation, editors & the law, and including French words in English writing. It's an immensely useful sourcebook for any Canadian who works with words on a regular basis.

I'm quite surprised that the book is available for sale here, given that the company which produced it was bought-out and the book hasn't been in print for over a year. So, if you've ever thought about buying this book, GET IT NOW while it lasts!

Indispensable
~ Written on Jul 13, 2002. out of 2 users found this review helpful.

An indispensable resource for Canadian editors, publishers, and writers.

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