近几年来,随着出版事业的不断开拓,编辑队伍也不断扩大,新鲜血液不断输进编辑队伍的肌体,给出版事业带来蓬勃的生机。形势的发展,又要求加强编辑队伍自身的建设。因此出版一些直接为编辑服务的读物,帮助青年编辑从理论上和实践上探索编辑工作的规律,及时总结经验,揭示问题,非常必要。最近,学林出版社出版了《编辑应用写作》(吴添汉编著)一书,这对编辑们来说,无疑是件好事。编辑除了他们从事的那些学科的专门知识之外,还得有本行特具的基本功,“写作”即其中之一。编辑要围绕有关书稿写大小不等的文章,大至引经据典的前言、后记,小至一封言简意长的催稿信,措词吐语,都有讲究,其中擒纵收放、正反开合的种种技巧,决非“桐城义法”所能概括,大可在普通文章风格学之外另立一格。这种写作是直接为 In recent years, with the continuous opening up of the publishing industry, the editorial team has also been constantly expanding. Fresh blood is continuously input into the body of the editorial team, bringing vitality to the publishing industry. The development of the situation also requires strengthening the editorial team’s own construction. Therefore, it is very necessary to publish some books that serve editors directly, help young editors to explore the law of editorial work theoretically and practically, sum up experiences and reveal problems in time. Recently, Hsuehli Publishing Co. published Editing Applied Writing (edited by Wu Tim Han), which is undoubtedly a good thing for editors. Editing has the unique basic skills of the Bank in addition to the expertise of those disciplines in which they work, and Writing is one of them. Editing to write about the size of the article manuscripts, ranging from the introduction of the foreword of the Code, postscript, as small as a brief draft letter of encouragement, the word spit, have stress, including escapement escape, positive and negative Opening and closing of all kinds of skills, by no means “Tongcheng Yi law” can be summarized, can be general style of articles outside of a separate style. This writing is straightforward