Indexes: Writing, Editing, Production

A new and enlightening approach to the fundamentals of back-of-book indexing. No other source gets to the heart of how an indexer converts the substance of the author's words and ideas in the text into keys found in the index. The emphasis is on methodology throughout, an element previously ignored in published discussions of indexing. An intellectual exercise—termed "thinking" indexing—is presented in depth: the process of extracting, then analyzing, and finally restructuring concepts from t…