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EDITORIAL TASKS:

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A) Picture Research / Permissions / Proofreading:
Locating source information and obtaining permission releases for copyrighted material; evaluate grammar, punctuation, spelling, omitted words, repeated words, spacing, format, and typographical errors in preparation for publication.

 

B) Fact Checking / Citation Checking / Reference Checking:

Checking accuracy of facts and quotes by reference to original sources used by Author or to other reference sources.

 

C) Indexing:

Producing a key to the contents of a work. Includes reading and analyzing the work; choosing subjects, concepts, and other elements that together form a systematic guide to the information contained in the work; arranging these elements into entries consisting of headings and subheadings and their locators (for example, page numbers); and arranging the entries alphabetically or in some other searchable order.

 

D) Copy Editing:

Editing for consistency of mechanics and consistency of facts; ensures that the idea the writer wishes to portray is clean clear, consistent and easy to understand; inserting head levels and approximate placement of art; editing tables, figures, and lists; notifying Designer of any unusual production requirements.

 

E) Stylistic Editing:

Clarifying meaning, eliminating jargon, polishing language, and other non-mechanical line-by-line editing; ensuring consistencies for titles in bibliographies, use of quotations, numbers, compound words, acronyms, extracts, italics, note references and illustrations in concordance with genre style manuals.

 

https://www.acrolinx.com/blog/four-us-style-guides-that-every-writer-needs-to-know-about/

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/style_manual_glossary.html

Style Manual (Guide) - A list of rules about how to research and write for academia or publication. There are many different style manuals, and each has different rules for the style of writing, citation, and overall format used in a paper.

 

Predominantly Used Styles:

​Associated Press Style Book

American Psychological Association

Chicago Manual of Style

Modern Language Association

 

AP - The Associated Press (AP) Style Book is the media bible. It contains commonly accepted journalistic standards for usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Most U.S. newspapers, magazines, and broadcast writers use it as their go-to style guide. It’s also characterized by its commitment to keeping writing style easy, concise, and free of bias. In recent years, marketing departments and public relations firms have also adopted it.

 

APA - An initialism that stands for the American Psychological Association - one of the foremost associations in the social sciences in western academia. The APA publishes its own citation style manual for publications, which is updated every several years.

 

CMOS - The Chicago Manual of Style is most commonly used by those working in literature, history, and the arts. This resource, revised according to the 17th edition, is the standard for book publishing in fiction and nonfiction and is often used to format research papers, footnotes/endnotes, and the bibliography of academic papers. It is instructional on the publishing process, such as preparing a manuscript, proofreading, formatting, and citation, as well as style and usage.

 

MLA - The Modern Language Association Handbook, recently updated to include web publishing, is one of the foremost academic manuals for publishing in literature, linguistics, and the humanities. It’s favored for scholarly and academic publishing, journal publishers, writers and publishers. It has one system that can be used across all platforms; it also lays out the principles behind citing and documenting sources, and gives detailed guidelines on scholarly writing and formatting manuscripts.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Style_Guides

  • ACS Style Guide

  • AMA Manual of Style

  • AP Style Book

  • APA Style

  • The ASA Style Guide

  • The Business Style Handbook

  • The Cambridge Guide to English Usage

  • The Chicago Manual of Style

  • Citing Medicine

  • The Elements of Style

  • The Elements of Typographic Style

  • Fowler's Modern English Usage

  • Garner's Modern English Usage

  • IEEE style

  • ISO 690

  • MHRA Style Guide

  • Microsoft Manual of Style

  • MLA Handbook

  • The New York Times Manual

  • The Oxford Guide to Style/New Hart's Rules

  • Scientific Style and Format (CSE style)

  • Turabian: A Manual for Writers

 

F) Developmental / Substantive Project Editing / Rewriting:

Working with the author to develop, or further develop, a literary project, whether a new manuscript or restructuring an existing manuscript, incorporating all forms of edits shown above on the basis of organizing and clarifying content, style, and structure while considering input from interested third parties.

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