Text Editing: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners - Softcover

Van De Poel, Kris ; Carstens, W. A. M.; Linnegar, John

9789057181146: Text Editing: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners

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ISBN 10: 9057181142 ISBN 13: 9789057181146

Verlag: VUB University Press, 2013

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Because of its unprecedented systematic approach to text editing, Text Editing is suitable for students and young practitioners and systematically guides them through all the aspects of the editor’s craft. It introduces the various roles an editor can play in the workplace and takes into account editing for an international English market, including the problems inherent in editing World Englishes. The book is based on an internationally recognized working model for the analysis of text quality and is an easy teaching tool that provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of text editing.

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Kris Van de Poel is an applied linguist University of Antwerp who has devoted considerable research time to text editing in academic and professional contexts. He is a coauthor of All Write: An Introduction to Writing in an Academic Context and Communication Skills for Foreign and Mobile Medical Professionals. W. A. M. Carstens is a professor of Afrikaans linguistics and current director of the School of Languages at North-West University–Potchefstroom. John Linnegar is immediate past chairman of the Professional Editors’ Group in South Africa and is an associate of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders in the United Kingdom.

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What is a text editor? What does the process of editing texts involve? What level of intervention is required to make texts communicate effectively?

Text editing sets out to answer these questions directly and in the amount of detail appropriate to a work that describes the text editor's complex craft. At once thoroughly researched and firmly grounded in modern editing practice, this comprehensive, user-friendly handbook covers many aspects of the text editor's intervention in the name of effective communication.

For the student of language practice or publishing studies it will prove to be an invaluable source of information about:

the types and levels of text editing as a process;
the many different roles that the text editor can play;
the issues with which the editor has to deal, including plagiarism, copyright and the question of ethics in editing practice generally, as well as
the complex process that text editing is.
For the practising text editor

the systematic approach based on Renkema's text-evaluation model should prove to be illuminating;
the text on producing ebooks and digital media and on English as a lingua franca should open up new vistas to the more progressive or tech-savvy editor, while
the large number of lists of solutions to a wide variety of textual problems, checklists, tables and figures make this an essential addition to your library of reference works.

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