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Text Editing Slides
Text Editing Slides
▪ Content editor
▪ Text editor
▪ Layout and graphic design editor or in a production house it is also
called art director
Text Editor
▪ To evaluate whether you, as the target reader, can EASILY
understand what the writer wants to say.
▪ To evaluate the logical relation of the ideas in each of the
sentences
▪ To evaluate the flow in order to reach high readability
▪ To evaluate the grammatical use: Mechanics, tenses,
structure, diction
Types of Editing
▪ Light editing
▪ Medium editing
▪ Heavy editing
Light Editing
▪ The message is clear
▪ The text organization is good
▪ There are a few grammatical mistakes
▪ There are mechanical mistakes (spelling, punctuations and
capitalization)
Medium Editing
▪ The message is clear
▪ The organization needs a little improvement
▪ Grammatical mistakes are everywhere
▪ Mechanical errors are everywhere
Heavy editing
▪ The message is not clear
▪ Badly organized
▪ Grammar maybe ok or poor
▪ Mechanical mistakes maybe a few or a lot
NOW TRY IT!
Work in pairs. Each of you write a brief article consisting of one
or two paragraphs about anything you can think of. After you
finish, swap your work to be edited by your partner. So you act
as an editor.
Here are the steps:
- First reading → to get understanding as a whole about the
subject, purpose and audience
- Second reading → to see the logical relevance/relation of
each ideas of the sentences
- Third reading → to see the flow of the sentences in the
paragraph