http://www.solari.net/toward-humanity/2012/04/20/the-nine-tasks-of-an-editor/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://www.solari.net/toward-humanity/2012/04/20/the-nine-tasks-of-an-editor/comment-page-1/#comment-3786 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:38:52 +0000 http://www.solari.net/toward-humanity/?p=731#comment-3786 Once again, thank you for helping people to understand the value of professional editing. Authors generally have a good sense of what they want to accomplish with a piece of writing, but they may know more about the subject itself than about how to present it. In the same way that authors are subject-matter experts, editors are specialists in the written word: they know how to make the writing support the message. For practical reasons, putting one person in charge of a complex document like an RFP makes sense; an editor has both the “macro” perspective (“Is everything here, and is it structured according to the requirements?”) and the “micro” perspective (“This number doesn’t match the one on the previous page—which one is correct?”) to keep things on track.

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