Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing
Line by Line: How to Edit Your Own Writing Books
- ISBN13: 9780395393918
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The essential guide for all writers. With over 700 examples of original and edited sentences, this book provides in rank about editing techniques, grammar, and usage for every novelist from the student to the published author.
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The book came in quicker than expected and was in perfect shape. Nothing else to say. Brilliant business!
Rating: 4 / 5
A really well informed book. Any person who is a novelist should read….
Rating: 5 / 5
The long sentences and choppy -yes, I used choppy!- examples in this book are hard to know. The examples the author offers as “fixes” to incorrect sentence structure are hardly fixes. I finished the book out of principle, but after page 30 I hardly paid any attention to the content. reading “Line by Line:…” was painfully confusing. My advise? buy “Grammatically Right” by Anne Stilman. Unlike Ms. Kehrwald Cook, Ms. Stilman does follow her own advise in writing.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book attracted me the second I saw it. I found it to be very helpful, especially the main points the author makes (about wordy sentences, and terrible writing). It is very helpful in seeing your own mistakes, for those of us without a copy editor of our own.
There are a few imperfections I want to mention though. The author started to bore me after repeated examples after examples after the 1st chapter. Though the book itself is an example of excellent writing, the author uses the word “But” to start of sentences.
Another example of books being just a guide and not a codification of absolute rules, is the author’s condemnation of pronoun use in one particular sentence. What the author does not know is the tradition and fact that actors are supposed to refer to their characters AS IF the actor was referring to himself (the author, unaware of common knowledge, criticises one actress for doing this.)
The grammar usage reference at the end of the book is very helpful. It is proper to note one failing, the unnecessary entries which normal people should be aware of. For example, she writes that the proper use of the word “Dilemma” involves a choice of “two assumptions” to a trying problem. She also takes the time to say that the words “verbal” and “oral” are different (one is words, one refers to the spoken word). My response is: who does not know these evident facts, and why are they reading an intellectual book on writing? It is rather superfluous.
But I give this 5 stars because it succeeds in its goal, small questions of perfection aside.
Rating: 5 / 5
this is an awesome book on editing. although there are hundrends of thousands of books that claim to teach editing, this book really does it. this is also simple to read and follow for all levels of students and writers.
Rating: 4 / 5