Resources for editors

Essential documents

These documents have been developed by members of the society.

• Thinking about freelancing?
• Pricing and quoting for freelances
• Freelance editors and insurance
• Why do you need an editor?: an excellent resource to help you to answer the question, ‘What do editors do?’

Useful sites

• The Australian Writer's Marketplace is now available online.
• Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd, formerly CASE). Links to other Australian Editors' societies can also be found on this site. You may find the Australian Standards for Editing Practice (CASE) [PDF, 319kB] and Policy on editing academic theses [PDF, 25kB] particularly useful.
• The Fine Print: Pamela Hewitt's independent online journal about editing.
• Online resources for editors from the Editors' Association of Canada.
• Electric Editors: links to online reference sources for editors.
• The Tasmanian Writers' Centre: resources for Tasmanian writers.
• The Australia Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication: information about the promotion of the profession of technical communication.
• The Arts Law Centre of Australia Online: this site provides valuable guidance on contracts, copyright, defamation, insurance and more.

Book reviews

• Michele Sabto, The On-screen Editing Handbook
• Don Watson, Death Sentence: the decay of public language
• Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation
• Adrian & Robyn Colman, What Makes a Good Report
• Pam Peters, The Cambridge Guide to English Usage
• Robinson, Green, Petty & Wood, Independent Contracting
• Janet Mackenzie, The Editor's Companion
• Elizabeth Flann & Beryl Hill, The Australian Editing Handbook (2nd Edition)
• Matthew Stevens, Subtleties of Scientific Style