Strategies to note and track copyediting tasks — today, in my How To column at Copyediting.com.
Related to in this piece:
- Checklist for editing visual components
- Checklist for editing captions
- Checklist for citations and references
- Checklist for editing via The Canadian Style
- Verification checklist from Craig Silverman at the Poynter Institute (bit small, really)
- The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande, and his related piece in The New Yorker
- An argument in favor of using checklists—a short form of the manifesto
- General praise and use of checklists
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