online resources

Websites I use most often include:

in print

Three books worth digesting:

  • Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Publishers, by Judith Butcher et al. (4th edn, Cambridge University Press, 2006)
  • The Penguin Guide to Punctuation, by R.L. Trask (Penguin, 1997)
  • New Hart’s Rules (Oxford University Press, 2005)

human resources

Brains I may pick include those of my colleagues in the SfEP and Glasgow Editors’ Network, who freely and generously share their knowledge and experience.

a note on the site

The blackbird logo is based on an engraving in William Yarrell’s A History of British Birds (Van Voorst, 1871).

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