New Subediting, 3rd Edition

ACKNOWLEDGEMEMTS

I found the following works useful in my chapters dealing with the knotty problems of text editing that confront subeditors: Robert Burchfield’s 1997 revision of Fowler’s English Usage (Oxford University Press); Sir Ernest Gower’s The Complete Plain Words (Penguin Books, 1987); Eric Partridge, Usage and Abusage (Penguin Books, 1882), and G. V. Carey, Mind the Stop (Penguin Books, 1976 – and still the best). I would be failing in my duty if I did not acknowledge the example of my old colleague Harold Evans, whose five-volume work, Editing and Design (Heinemann), produced in the early 1970s, remains a repository of wisdom and expertise on the craft on newspaper journalism as it stood at the onset of ‘new technology’.

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