Course Manual Content — Copyediting Cookbooks

What the Course Covers
Recommended Reference Books
Elements of a Recipe
Approaching the Edit

• Audience
• Author’s Style
• Publisher’s Style
• Sample of a Publisher’s Style Guide
• Sample of a Copyeditor’s Style Sheet

Editing the Manuscript as a Whole

• Electronic Editing
• Querying

Editing Specific Elements

• Recipe Title
• Mini Exercise: Recipe Title
• Ingredients List
• Mini Exercise: Ingredients
• Procedure
• Mini Exercise: Procedure
• Yield (Servings)

Assignment One: Send-in Exercise
Editing Additional Elements

• Headnote
• Note
• Mini Exercise: Headnote and Note
• Nutritional Analysis
• Subrecipe
• Variation

Checking Consistency across Recipes

• Recipe Titles
• Headnotes
• Ingredients
• Procedures
• Yields
• Nutritional Analyses

Editing Recipes in Periodicals
Finding Work
Assignment Two: Send-in Exercise

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