What Editors Do All Day, Part Two - Structural Editing

Alien Onion February 09

Herewith, the second in our occasional series What Do Editors Do All Day. You can find the first in the series, our essay on copyediting, here. Today we want to talk about Structural Editing.

If we were structural editing this occasional series, we might ask, 'Why didn't you begin this series with Structural Editing - given that it precedes copyediting in the linear process of producing a book?' To which we might reply to ourselves, 'You make a valid point, but it just works better this way. Can we keep it as is, please?' To which we would then say, 'Right you are. Carry on. But can I just draw your attention to something else over here...' Etc, etc, you get the idea.

Part Two: Structural Editing

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Again, thanks to all the original, unknown-to-us authors of these lolcats (and lolbears and lolephant seals).

*Actually, none of us can ever remember suggesting a prologue - it mostly seems to work in the reverse. But the point stands.

Cross-posted from Alien Onion

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