Post by account_disabled on Dec 27, 2023 20:19:02 GMT -8
When I read, the hunt for error is triggered . It is an instinctive and also unconscious hunt. Sometimes, as soon as I start a new book, I wonder at what point I will find the first mistake. And that mistake always comes, it never disappoints me. This is why reviewing a manuscript , before any publication (online or on paper), is essential. I also wonder, when I find too many, if there was even a minimal revision of the text before publication. 3-4 errors - non-grammatical - in a book of over 600 pages are justifiable, but 3-400 errors in one of just over 300 pages are absolutely not. And we arrive at the topic of the article: the correction of a manuscript, a job that a publishing house must do - that should do - and a job that an author should do before sending his manuscript around the publishing world.
Editing and revision: 2 different jobs There are still those who confuse the work of revision (improving the story and also correcting the draft) with that of editing . I've proofread for some clients, but I can't edit, at least not for fiction, where I have no training or experience. While Special Data proofreading work isn't limited to simply checking spelling and looking for typos, editing is something completely different. A proofreader makes the manuscript readable, grammatically and syntactically correct. An editor makes the manuscript - the novel - sellable, that is, he transforms, through his advice, a shaky story, full of gaps, etc., into a story that works. This is the summary in a few words of the 2 types of work.
The importance of form: presenting a correct text Content is King, as they say in the field of writing for the web . But the shape is Queen, I add. “Don't look at the form”, some say, “look at the content”. A bit like, when I criticized a song for being "bad" to my ears (read: a complaint), the others would say to me "But have you heard the words?". No, content and form are husband and wife, and they are very close, they love each other madly, they are 2 soul mates, each half the size of an apple. Theirs was love at first sight, the kind that lasts a lifetime. Until death do them part. It's like giving a 10 to a school essay for the profound thoughts expressed by the student, but with a text full of grammatical errors of all kinds. In high school the Italian teacher told me that my essays were good in form, but unfortunately they lacked content.
Editing and revision: 2 different jobs There are still those who confuse the work of revision (improving the story and also correcting the draft) with that of editing . I've proofread for some clients, but I can't edit, at least not for fiction, where I have no training or experience. While Special Data proofreading work isn't limited to simply checking spelling and looking for typos, editing is something completely different. A proofreader makes the manuscript readable, grammatically and syntactically correct. An editor makes the manuscript - the novel - sellable, that is, he transforms, through his advice, a shaky story, full of gaps, etc., into a story that works. This is the summary in a few words of the 2 types of work.
The importance of form: presenting a correct text Content is King, as they say in the field of writing for the web . But the shape is Queen, I add. “Don't look at the form”, some say, “look at the content”. A bit like, when I criticized a song for being "bad" to my ears (read: a complaint), the others would say to me "But have you heard the words?". No, content and form are husband and wife, and they are very close, they love each other madly, they are 2 soul mates, each half the size of an apple. Theirs was love at first sight, the kind that lasts a lifetime. Until death do them part. It's like giving a 10 to a school essay for the profound thoughts expressed by the student, but with a text full of grammatical errors of all kinds. In high school the Italian teacher told me that my essays were good in form, but unfortunately they lacked content.