· To make sure the piece has a clear purpose
· To make the writing more effective
· To make sure its worth reading
· To create more success for the author
· To ensure publication will happen and run well
· To communicate with writers as partners
· To help think the process out
· To check for correctness
On Friday, we also spent a lot of time editing a partner's paper on our first guest speaker while they edited ours. This was a new experience for most of us as many have never edited a full written work before. By using Kristin Simonetti's "A Perfectionist's Guide to Editing and Revision," we each went systematically through the steps and then worked with the author in discussing whatever changes were made.
I believe that, in editing for the first time, I used every bullet-point created earlier in my role as an editor. In the first three of Simonetti's editing steps, we read to make sure the story had a clear purpose, was worth reading, and to help think the process out before discussing anything with the author. Following this, we met with our partners (Step 4) in order to discuss ideas or possible changes and updates for the story. In a professional setting, this step would create more success for the author and even help to ensure the story's publication and that it would run very well. Finally, after speaking with them and letting them make their own revisions to the story, we edited their works again using steps 5 and 6. In these steps, like the bullet-points, we edited to check for correctness and then to trim down the story if necessary.
Overall I felt that editing like this for the first time was a good experience. Editing is a much more difficult task than I expected when first walking in to this class. I am glad to have early insight into a career that I knew little about and I am excited in moving forward to learn other various perspectives from different speakers on their editing styles.
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