Revising is also another form of editing. It is looking for awkward sentences, run-on sentences, and in general parts of the paper that don’t make sense to the editor. Usually the writer revises his/her copy before turning it in.
A publication’s editor in chief is its primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. The term is generally applied to newspapers, magazines, and yearbooks.
A Book Editor is role within Book Publishing, which involves being a substantive editor, production editor and copyeditor all rolled into one. This is very much the case with smaller publishers and the Book Editor, may even have to be a Designer as well. Skills that make a good Book Editor are naturally Literary skills and a love of books, but also design and an ability to feel that a page layout is correct. Skill is also needed in choosing the right fonts for text and headers, as well as the ability to use Computers and Software.
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American Psychological Association (APA)
When editors or teachers ask you to write in APA Style, they do not mean writing style. They are referring to the editorial style that many of the social and behavioral sciences have adopted to present written material in the field.
Editorial style consists of rules or guidelines that a publisher observes to ensure clear and consistent presentation of written material. Editorial style concerns uniform use of such elements as
• punctuation and abbreviations
• construction of tables
• selection of headings
• citation of references
• presentation of statistics, and
• many other elements that are a part of a manuscript
The American Psychological Association has established a style that it uses in all of the books and journals that it publishes. Many others working in the social and behavioral sciences have adopted this style as their standard as well
MLA (Modern Language association) style has been widely adopted by schools, academic departments, and instructors for over half a century. The association’s guidelines are also used by over 1,100 scholarly and literary journals, newsletters, and magazines and by many university and commercial presses. The MLA’s guidelines are followed throughout North America and in Brazil, China, India, Japan, Taiwan, and other countries around the world.
3. Answer the following questions:
1. What types of scholarly editors do you know?
2. What do each of them do?
3. What is the difference of scholarly editors?
4. How do you define the technical editing?
5. What is a Book editor?
6. What should the Book editor possess?
7. How can you comment on the following: «Skill is also needed in choosing the right fonts for text and headers, as well as the ability to use Computers and Software»?
4. Translate the sentences into Russian:
1. The primary difference between copy editing scholarly books and journals and other sorts of copy editing lies in applying the standards of the publisher to the copy.
2. Most scholarly publishers have a preferred style guide, usually a combination of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary and either the
