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Editing Techniques

Editing Techniques. The known The ideal The practical. 1. The Known. What techniques have helped you?. 1. The Known. What techniques have helped you ? What works for you or me may not work for someone else. 1. The Known. What techniques have helped you ?

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Editing Techniques

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  1. Editing Techniques The known The ideal The practical

  2. 1. The Known • What techniques have helped you?

  3. 1. The Known • What techniques have helped you? • What works for you or me may not work for someone else

  4. 1. The Known • What techniques have helped you? • What works for you or me may not work for someone else • Stick with what you already know works well

  5. 2. The Ideal • We all have unique audiences and come from fields with unique expectations • We also all go about writing in a way that best suits our previous experience and strengths • I can’t really tell you exactly what to do or how do it best for your circumstancebecause I don’t know your audience

  6. 2. The Ideal • One piece of advice that tends to apply in almost any situation…Know your audience • Vague advice, I know • You will predominantly have to figure this out by yourself • Best editing practices in one situation may not work the same way or as well in another • Ask the right questions beforehand that will help you know your audience’s priorities • Be flexible

  7. 2. The Ideal • Best practice (but hard to manage): • Listen to or observe a representative audience member read your work aloud and watch their reactions to it(this is called “concurrent think-aloud protocol”) • No matter how good of an editor you think you are, you never really know how the audience will react • (…unless you know your audience really well, but even then…)

  8. 3. The Practical • Create a checklist or heuristic • Outline best practices for your particular audience and situation • Helps you avoid forgetting important components or phases of the editing process. • Checklist helps you focus on one issue at a time • Multitasking kills productivity

  9. Sample Editing Checklist/Heuristic* • Is my paper usable? • Is any of my content distracted from the purpose of this paper, this chapter, this section, this paragraph? • Have I provided sufficient citations and reasoning to support all of my approaches, methods, and assertions? • Does it flow? • Is my style, grammar, and punctuation appropriate? • Is my formatting consistent with itself, and consistent with expected academic style? *See handout

  10. 3. Practical • Read your work aloud to yourself 1-3 times before you turn it in

  11. Conclusion • Any more good ideas? • Any questions?

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