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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:05:30 -0600 (MDT)

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ANN: Discount For DocTrain East 2007-October 16-20, 2007
ANNOUNCE: Doc-To-Help 2007 v2 - New Version
ANNOUNCE: New book on scientific editing

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ANNOUNCE: Doc-To-Help 2007 v2 - New Version

The new release of Doc-To-Help 2007 v2 empowers you to create
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ANNOUNCE: New book on scientific editing

Subtleties of Scientific Style fills the gaps left by other style
guides and books on editing. Here, Matthew Stevens, an Australian
scientific editor, distils over two decades of experience,
explaining subtle but significant errors that authors can make
and many subtle tricks that can make a work more readable.

Topics include:

* Achieving an editorial Gestalt
* Common errors-danglers, fillers, misapplied modifiers,
shortcuts
* Errors of reasoning-begging the question, teleology, size
comparisons
* Expression-first-person science, order of events, parallel
narratives
* Tricky terms-applied, based on, due to, respectively

Contents
What is science?
Substantive editing
Common errors
Errors of substance or sequence
Errors of reasoning
Improving expression
Improving visual presentation
Tricky or misused terms
Errors in classical languages
Appendix 1-Editing techniques
Appendix 2-Wordy phrases
Appendix 3-British or US spelling?
Appendix 4-Unicode values and non-displaying characters
Appendix 5-Character charts in logical groupings
Bibliography

You can download a copy from
http://www.zeta.org.au/~mls/subtleties.html
(US$6, A$7 shareware). Hard copies will be available soon for
order (112 pp B5, ~200 g, US$12, A$15 + postage).
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