{"id":186,"date":"2015-10-23T06:43:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T06:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mediapasta.com\/stylusblog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2015-10-23T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T06:43:51","slug":"editing-at-different-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/editing-at-different-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing \u2013 At Different Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is perfectly okay to write garbage\u2013as long as you edit brilliantly.\u201d \u2013 C.J. Cherryh While editing sounds like and easy task, it too has many level to pass. These descending levels of editing are \u2013 substantive chunk editing, paragraph-level editing, sentence-level editing and word-level editing. At Stylus Solutions, our language editors play with words at the syllabic level and brainstorm over commas and full stops. Here\u2019s a bird-eye view on how they do it\u2026
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\n<\/a>Substantive Chunk Editing<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the first highest level of editing. In this kind of editing, large pieces of text are moved \u00a0around\u00a0and possibly cut. The editor has to do a significant level of editing to re-structure content again if\u00a0he\/she notices troubled spots, gaps in information, lack of flow or transition or sections where the purpose is lost. It becomes necessary for the editor to address these issues, but how? The best\u00a0solution is to print out difficult parts of the material and scan through it at a glance to get a gist of\u00a0the level of editing required. Then go back to your electronic document and start cuting and re-assembling those parts of the textual material until all the pieces come together more naturally and\u00a0in the form of story. \u00a0When information is told as a story, it serves the reader as well as the writer.\u00a0When choosing to do a significant level of editing on a piece of work, the editor should arrange\u00a0enough time to do a good job at it. This level of editing is expensive but the fruits of its labour are\u00a0very sweet.<\/p>\n


\n<\/a>Paragraph-Level Editing<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the second highest form of editing. It is also referred to as line editing. Just like substantive\u00a0editing, line editing too looks for clarity and flow in its content. In this kind of editing too, the editor\u00a0moves around or cuts sentences with the purpose of clarifying the meaning \u00a0of each sentence and\u00a0ensuring that a single idea represents a single sentence. Line editing is useful if there are multiple\u00a0ideas in a single sentence, the written text has a lot of adjectives, the vocabulary isn\u2019t\u00a0comprehensible or the meaning is lost in too many jargons. At this level too, the editor ensures that\u00a0all the sentences written, add rhythm and pulse to the writer\u2019s overall content.<\/p>\n

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Sentence-Level Editing<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the third highest form of editing. It is also referred to as copyediting. At this level, the editor\u00a0addresses issues in grammar, spelling, usage or consistency. Often authors can lose track of these\u00a0smaller details in writing or while making revisions to text. That is why copyeditors are hired to\u00a0perform a thorough quality control check on grammar, spellings, punctuation, usage, internal logical\u00a0errors, glaring errors, use of italics\/bold and consistency. Before editing, copyeditors should make\u00a0sure they have identified issues they can confidently fix and ones they would like to get checked by\u00a0an editor of a higher level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is perfectly okay to write garbage\u2013as long as you edit brilliantly.\u201d \u2013 C.J. Cherryh While editing sounds like and easy task, it too has many level to pass. These descending levels of editing are \u2013 substantive chunk editing, paragraph-level editing, sentence-level editing and word-level editing. At Stylus Solutions, our language editors play with words […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stylusolutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}