Guide to Documentary Editing

Name: Guide to Documentary Editing
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ISBN: 9780801856860

ISBN-10: 0801856868

ISBN-13: 9780801856860

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Mary-Jo Kline, Linda Johanson

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First published in 1987 and widely acclaimed, A Guide to Documentary Editing is now available in a new and completely revised edition. Drawing on the experience of dozens of editorial projects, the author details every step of the editing process as now practiced in the electronic information age -- planning a project, organizing materials, evaluating and transcribing texts, applying textual and editorial conventions, and preparing the edition for the publisher. The author even makes cautious predictions about future forms of electronic documentary publication: CD-ROMs, locally available text bases, and Internet sites. In addition, the author brings up to date her survey of literature in…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 2/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.990



Foreword


Preface



Introduction



Initiating an Editorial Project



Defining and Organizing a Documentary Edition



Evaluating and Transcribing the Source Text



The Conventions of Textual Treatment



General Rules and Their Exceptions



The Mechanics of Establishing a Text and Text-Related Notes



Nontextual Elements: Informational Annotation and Its Supplements



Publishing the Edition: Options for the Twenty-first Century



Form Letters



Sample Control File Database Records


Glossary


References


Index