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不妨成为一名出色的文字编辑
You might as well be a great copy editor
导读
这篇博客讨论了为什么即使不是专业编辑,把自己当作一名优秀的文字校对者来打磨文章也很有价值——好的写作往往取决于反复的编辑和修改。对写作者来说,它提醒我们:写作能力不只是灵感,更是校对、修改的功夫。
可以直接用的写作要点
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把校对和修改当作写作的核心环节,而不是可有可无的收尾工作。
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写作能力对技术从业者同样关键——在远程协作时代,能否用文字说服别人决定了你能否把事情推动起来。
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不必追求高深的语法知识,像《The Elements of Style》这样的经典小书就足以覆盖日常写作所需的语法和风格基础。
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想深入理解句子和段落的清晰结构,可以读 Joseph M. Williams 的《Style: Toward Clarity and Grace》,它能帮你理性地组织文章中的信息。
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通过 NYT 的 "Copy Edit This" 小测验等工具定期练习,可以持续提升挑错和润色的眼力。
HN 评论精选
推荐用 NYT 的校对测验来练习挑错能力。
《纽约时报》的 "Copy Edit This" 校对测验很不错,推荐大家去练习。
Wistar查看英文原文
NYT's "Copy Edit This" quizzes are quite good. https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22copy%2Bedit%2Bthis%22 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/11/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz.html?searchResultPosition=18
写作能力是技术人推动工作、说服他人的关键技能。
我很早就知道(但最近才真正体会到)写作能力对技术人甚至程序员有多重要。如果你无法说服别人为什么该听你的,就很难推动任何事情。在这个日益远程协作的世界里,写作能力是关键。
chadly查看英文原文
Something I've known for a while (but have really come to terms with more recently) is just how important writing skills are even for technical people (even coders). It's hard to get anything done if you can't convince people why they should listen to you. Especially in this increasingly remote-connected world, writing skills are key.
推荐 Williams 的《Style》,它教你从信息架构层面组织清晰的句子和段落。
我想在推荐书单上再加第三本:《Style: Towards Clarity and Grace》(Joseph M. Williams 的任何类似书名带 Style、Clarity、Grace 的书都行)。这本书讲的是英语中清晰的短语、句子和段落的信息架构,通读几遍后,你就能理性地思考自己在写作中如何安排观点和信息。
fennecfoxen查看英文原文
I would like to add a third recommendation to the list of two, and recommend "Style: Towards Clarity and Grace". (Alternatively, use any similar book by Joseph M. Williams featuring the words Style, Clarity, and Grace in the title). This book discusses the information architecture of clear and coherent phrases, sentences and paragraphs in the English language, and a few passes through its contents will leave you able to reason about the way you lay out ideas and information in your writing.
校对技能实用但不必过度钻研,《Elements of Style》足以覆盖自我修改所需。
高中时我是校报的文字编辑(AP 格式规范的细节至今刻在脑子里),这项技能确实很有用。我的第一份工作是开发者营销,很多开发者愿意给博客投稿但觉得自己的写作不够好——问题大多只是些语法和风格的小毛病,我能帮他们清理这些,让他们更愿意和我一起创作内容。不过我认为,专门读一本校对书只为了编辑自己的文章有点过头了——你不需要高深的语法知识,像《The Elements of Style》这样的书就够覆盖所需语法,还能帮你培养更好的整体写作风格感。
awillen查看英文原文
Back in high school I was the copy editor for the paper (and the minutiae of AP style are still seared into my brain), and it's definitely been a useful skill. My first job was doing developer marketing, and we had a lot of devs that were happy to contribute to our blog but didn't feel their writing was great - a lot of it was just little grammatical and style stuff, so my being able to clean it up really encouraged them to work with me on creating content. That said, I think that reading a book on copy edit just to be able to edit your own stuff is a little bit of overkill. You don't need a deep, sophisticated knowledge of grammar - something like Strunk and White's Elements of Style will cover the grammar stuff you need while also helping to offer a little bit better sense of bigger-picture writing style.
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