Getting Under Way

Bring a completed printing order, available from our office or from Printing and Mailing Services, a completed Intake form, and your manuscript to Creative Publishing. Your job can then get under way. On request, we can provide the printer with production specifications to get estimates on printing costs for your job.

Before the designer creates your publication, your copy is edited according to university style.

Working with the editor and the designer, you proofread and release a succession of proofs, progressing from laser-printed mockups
to a proof created by the printer. This proof is the printer's way of showing you what the publication will look like when it is printed.
It's sometimes necessary to see more than one proof at any of these stages. After you release the final proof, the printer takes over.
You next see your project when the piece is finished.

Turnaround—from the day you enter our office with your complete manuscript to the day your publication is delivered to your office or mailed through the distribution center—usually takes about four to six weeks, depending on the size and complexity of your publication.
If you have questions about any facet of the production process,
a publications staff member can answer them.

Style References
If you have questions not answered in the editorial style section of this guide, consult The Chicago Manual of Style, fourteenth edition. It's the standard reference book on style used in the publications office. When your material is scholarly or technical, consult manuals specific to your discipline, such as guides by the American Psychological Association, the Associated Press, or the Modern Language Association.

Our standard dictionary is the fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary (online version). We use it for spelling, meaning, and word division. If a word isn't listed there, we go to Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1971) for the last word on words. Other recommended reference works on style, punctuation, and grammar, respectively, are the third edition of the classic Elements of Style, by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White, and The New Well-Tempered Sentence (1993) and The Deluxe Transitive Vampire (1993), both by Karen Elizabeth Gordon.

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