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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What Developmental Editing Is | |
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| Whom This Book Is For | |
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| What This Book Covers | |
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| Some Ground Rules | |
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| Concept: Shaping the Proposal | |
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| Author Profile: The Veteran | |
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| Client Profile: The Agent | |
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| Assignment: The Proposal with Too Many Concepts | |
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| Locate the Concept | |
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| Profile the Audience | |
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| Evaluate Market Potential | |
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| Bring the Vision into Focus | |
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| Content: Assessing Potential | |
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| Author Profile: The First-Timer | |
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| Client Profile: The Big Trade House | |
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| Assignment: The Tome with Too Many Subjects | |
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| Size Up the Author | |
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| Size Up the Publisher | |
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| Size Up the DE | |
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| Create a Content Summary | |
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| Find the Main Subject | |
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| Thesis: Finding the Hook | |
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| Author Profile: The Coauthors | |
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| Client Profile: The Small Trade House | |
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| Assignment: The Study with Too Many Theses | |
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| Cull Theses from Topics | |
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| Beware of the Rehash | |
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| Choose the Main Thesis | |
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| Create a Working Title | |
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| Narrative: Tailoring the Timeline | |
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| Author Profile: The Historian | |
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| Client Profile: The Copublisher | |
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| Assignment: The Sprawling Saga | |
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| Untangle Timelines from Arguments | |
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| Find the Main Timelines | |
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| Brainstorm Timeline Strategies | |
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| Compose the New Timeline | |
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| Finetune the Timeline | |
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| Restore Bits of Argument | |
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| Exposition: Deploying the Argument | |
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| Author Profile: The Theorist | |
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| Client Profile: The University Press | |
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| Assignment: The Theory with Too Many Tangents | |
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| Untangle Arguments from Timelines | |
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| Find the Main Arguments | |
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| Brainstorm Argument Strategies | |
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| Compose the New Argument | |
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| Finetune the Argument | |
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| Restore Bits of Timeline | |
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| Plan: Drafting a Blueprint | |
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| Write Up the Plan | |
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| Compose Chapter Theses | |
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| Intervene Strategically | |
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| Rhythm: Setting the Pace | |
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| Author Profile: The Sole Authority | |
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| Client Profile: The Regional House | |
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| Assignment: The Local History Turned Personal | |
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| Rearrange the Furniture | |
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| Draft New Passages | |
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| Balance Chapter Weights | |
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| Edit for Pace | |
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| Transitions: Filling in the Blanks | |
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| AuthorProfile: The Dead Author | |
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| Client Profile: The Self-Publisher | |
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| Assignment: The Memoir with Lapses | |
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| Create Opening Transitions | |
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| Create Closing Transitions | |
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| Draw Conclusions | |
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| Place Those Conclusions | |
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| Style: Training the Voice | |
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| Author Profile: The Journalist | |
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| Client Profile: The Book Packager | |
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| Assignment: The Story with Too Many Voices | |
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| Set the Tone | |
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| Parse the Rhetoric | |
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| Master Abstraction | |
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| Gauge the Ironies | |
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| Harmonize the Voices | |
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| Display: Dressing Up the Text | |
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| Author Profile: The Author-for-Hire | |
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| Client Profile: The Trade Reference House | |
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| Assignment: The Guidebook with Poor Signage | |
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| Consider Subheads | |
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| Consider Epigraphs | |
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| Draft an Art Plan | |
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| Illustrate Concepts | |
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| Visualize Data | |
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| Test-Drive Maps | |
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| Add Lagniappe | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |