Importance of Manuscript Editing
The process of publishing a research paper or review article involves various individual steps that are aimed at ensuring better readability of the manuscript. These include equipping the manuscript, converting the manuscript into the appropriate format, editing, designing, formatting, and proofreading. Of these, manuscript editing presumes special significance given its impact on the final, journal publication.
Various Stages of Manuscript Editing
Manuscript Editing is a multi-level process having four main stages i.e substantive editing, line editing, copy editing, and proofreading. In some cases, the manuscript may need just one of these services while others may need two or more of these services.
- Substantive editing: The entire draft will be verified for all the building blocks of your manuscript such as the words, the plot and characterization. The editor or reviewer will go through the entire manuscript to enhance its strengths of it while pointing out its weaknesses and ways to remedy these.
- Line editing: This type of editing looks at every line and sentence of the manuscript and attempts to rectify syntax or logical errors, use of words, and meaning. The editor or reviewer will trim excess use of jargon and keep sentences short and to the point and ensures to retain the smooth flow of the narrative.
- Copy editing: The purpose of copyediting is to spruce up the manuscript so as to make flawless readability and adhere to specific style guides of the journal publishing. Spelling, formatting, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure remain major focus areas in copy editing.
- Proofreading: This is usually the last step before the manuscript is sent for journal publication. It is another round of editing that double-check for the slipped errors in the entire manuscript. This is more required to find out any inconsistencies in the manuscript.
Conclusion
Opting for manuscript editing can help enhance the clarity of the draft and overall logical flow. It helps to remove grammatical errors, punctuation, and spelling that had been overlooked. Manuscript editing helps to smoothen the rough edges of the manuscript.
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