Top Notch A Fundamentals

[Oswald Lemus]

Askany published writer and you will hear that a good editor is not just helpful, but essential. If you aspire to be an editor, this copyediting course will teach you the fundamentals of top-notch editing for both fiction and nonfiction. If you're already working as an editor, you will not only brush up on your skills, but will also learn about recent advances in your chosen profession. If you're a writer, you will learn essential self-editing tools to give your manuscripts the professional look that publishers like to see.

From the language of editing to grammar, punctuation, and syntax to the all-important relationships between editor, author, and publisher, every facet of editing will be explored in this copyeditor course. Online editing is gaining popularity; its complexities will be unraveled and its advantages and pitfalls explored. Can you make a living as an editor? Tips and resources for finding work will be addressed at length. When you finish with this course, you will feel confident enough to tackle even the most complex of manuscripts.

If you've ever seen a document that an editor has marked up, you probably wondered what all those symbols meant. This lesson focuses on traditional copy editors' marks and how to use them. By the end of the lesson, you will have a solid foundation for editing both on a paper manuscript and on-screen.

Editors must focus on many details to produce a final manuscript that's as error-free as possible. This lesson covers the tools used to catch inconsistencies in spelling, capitalization, and more. By the end of the lesson, you will have a clear understanding of what tools you need to edit effectively and efficiently.

This lesson will offer a refresher on the basics of grammar and punctuation as well as reveal some of the more common related problems that arise in writing. You will come away with a solid understanding of the basic grammar principles as they apply to copyediting.

This lesson takes you into the world of spelling, capitalization, and numbers. Many people are surprised to learn that there are actually rules governing how words are spelled and capitalized, and whether numbers should be spelled out or in digit form.

This lesson explores all the writing pitfalls that can leave readers in a state of confusion. You will learn to recognize and fix garbled syntax, mixed metaphors, nominals, redundancies, and much more. You will also learn how to untangle overly wordy sentences and create parallel structure.

When is it appropriate to use an abbreviation? When should you hyphenate words? Most people have a general knowledge of abbreviations and hyphens, but when it comes time to actually use them, they can be mystifying. This lesson examines the rules that guide their use.

In this lesson, you will learn how to edit such peripheral material as tables, charts, photos, and captions. If you've ever seen a caption that didn't fit the photo it was describing, you will understand the need for this extra scrutiny. You will learn the function of the foreword, table of contents, index, and many more.

Every novel is different, and a good fiction editor will help guide the author to take the story where it wants to go. This lesson defines narrative summary, exposition, point of view, and character arcs. By the end of the lesson, you should have the necessary tools to tackle fiction editing.

This lesson examines how to keep life harmonious within the author-editor-publisher relationship. Writers will be able to see things from the editor's perspective, and editors will learn how it feels to be in the author's shoes. Both of you will gain insight as well as a good brush-up of your people skills.

After 10 lessons of absorbing the technical elements of editing, it's time to have some fun. This lesson explores the intricacies, inconsistencies, and irregularities in the English language. You will learn about oddball words and phrases, the dos and don'ts of usage, and why language is like a puzzle.

This might be the most important lesson of all. In this lesson, you will learn how to find work as an editor. Whether you want to begin a freelance career or are interested in a staff position, all the help and advice you will need to achieve your goals is in this lesson.

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The scattering of Lamb waves by a two-dimensional rectangular notch is investigated for rapid inspection of defects in a structure. To derive the reflection and transmission coefficients of the scattered waves in a simple way, the scattering caused by the notch is analyzed through the composition of individual scattering processes. Linear equations corresponding to the reflection and transmission coefficients are constructed along with scattering graphs. For an illustration of the efficacy of the presented method, the scattering of fundamental symmetric and anti-symmetric modes are inspected according to the depth and width of a notch in a plate. Validity of these expressions is demonstrated by the comparison of the theoretical analysis results with those from the finite element analysis.

In order to detect the power grid fundamental signal in the polluted environment, a new adaptive notch filter (ANF) algorithm is used in this paper. A prominent advantage of the algorithm is that it does not require a phase-locked loop (PLL) for the synchronization, but it can track the change of fundamental component automatically by adjusting its own parameters, γ and ζ. Empirical results show that the algorithm is simple and can offer a high degree of immunity and insensitivity to voltage mutations, harmonics, three-phase unbalanced and other types of pollution that exist in the grid signal. The ANF algorithm can accurately extract the real-time power grid fundamental signal in the polluted environment.

This paper is concerned with the use of the sharply notched cylindrical specimen as an index of plane-strain fracture toughness in quality assurance of aluminum alloy products. Specifically, information is presented that relates to the use of the ASTM Tentative Method for Sharp-Notch Tension Testing with Cylindrical Specimens (E 602-76T) in quality assurance programs. The first part of this paper describes the results of an investigation into the influence of fundamental testing variables on the sharp notch strength of several high-strength aluminum alloys. The results indicate that variations in the notch root radius and eccentricity of loading (expressed in terms of the percent bending in a verification specimen) within the range permitted by the Tentative Method can contribute significantly to the scatter observed in relations between the sharp notch to yield strength ratio (NYR) and KIc. The results also show that the upper limit of KIc beyond which the NYR loses useful sensitivity to further increases in KIc decreases with decreasing specimen size (diameter). It appears that the notch strength of the smaller of the two specimens ( and 1 1 16 in. diameter; 13 and 27 mm diameter) specified in the Tentative Method will have rather limited application as an index of KIc for the tougher high-strength aluminum alloys. However, the upper limit of 1.3 presently placed on the NYR appears to be overly conservative for high-strength aluminum alloys.

The second part of the paper describes the statistical analysis of correlations between the NYR and KIc for various lots of 2124-T851 aluminum alloy plate. The purpose of the analysis was to demonstrate how the sharp-notch cylindrical specimen could be used in a quality assurance program for high-strength aluminum alloy products based on a minimum acceptable value of KIc. The results indicate that the NYR from the larger of the two specimens specified in the Tentative Method provides a better correlation with KIc than does the NYR from the smaller specimen. A modified regression analysis is introduced which establishes tighter tolerance limits for the correlations than can be obtained using conventional procedures. The consequence is an improvement in the cost effectiveness of quality control procedures using the sharply notched cylindrical specimen. A review of existing data shows that crack orientation and product thickness can influence the correlations but that for practical purposes of quality assurance, correlations based on the T-L orientation will ensure that the minimum value of KIc is exceeded in all three orientations. Thickness effects can be handled by establishing separate correlations depending on whether the plate product is greater or less than 4 in. thick. Employing the modified regression analysis, a simple quality assurance plan for fracture toughness guarantee of aluminum alloy products was developed and shown to be cost effective based on available data for the aluminum alloy 2124-T851.

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