vendredi 28 juillet 2017

By Edward Reynolds


People, who offers support to authors either before or during the publication and release of a manuscript is referred to as the developmental experts. The developmental editor offers his services to the clients either directly or through an editing firm. Depending on their skill set, an editor can handle different genres.

As earlier mentioned, the copy-reader performs a number of core tasks so as to ensure success, one of the roles being giving suggestions. They offer a number of suggestions that seem relevant in the context. These may include the goals of a book, story, character development, style, language just to mention a few. However, they do not perform spelling and grammar corrections. Theirs is to only show the mistakes made and leave it to the writer to make all the necessary changes. In some cases, they help coach writers step by step, though this is uncommon.

Every professional should possess a number of attributes that make them the best at what they do. The same applies to editors. The first good quality being able to highlight clear edits. When going through the script, they should be able to identify the various mistakes made as well as changes that should be made and clearly outline them. This is important because the writer will be able to view them and make all the relevant changes and not give them such a hard time.

Secondly, they need to be problem solvers. Once the problem has been identified, they have to offer alternative solutions. Where mistakes have been made a clear way forward should be given so that the problem is addressed and the author is able to focus on other issues.

They should also possess creativity. They are required to view things according to the expert perspective in that they enter their world and see things as the writer does. This way, the publishing supervisor will be able to come up with new creative concepts that can be incorporated into the story to add that little spark to the story. They should also have the capabilities of putting the right words together to help add spice to the story.

Respect is another core value. At the work place, everyone needs to practice mutual respect and recognize that everyone has a unique role, which they need to play in order to ensure that business runs smoothly. The same applies here, where the editor should realize that their job is to revise, offer suggestions, and leave the rest to the writers, who are the only ones with the control of making any kind of alterations to the script.

Everyone needs some guidance at some point of their life and it usually does not matter how experienced you might be. Therefore, it is the responsibility of the editor to give the writer proper instructions of what needs to be done. They should also provide market analysis and know what the readers want.

It is important to note that a writer is also encouraged to try as much as possible to work with the editor. They have to show respect as well and establish good communication with them. Apart from these, they ought to also be willing to compromise and accept corrections and changes.




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