niedziela, 5 czerwca 2011

Copyediting Corporate Reports

By Ping McGee


Copyediting is normally mistaken for editing even by people from the publication or editorial circulation. Copyediting is done by a copyeditor who uses style guides or manuals to be able to correct word usage, punctuation, alignment, spacing and other visual text on a written document, paper, or website. It does not involve editing the content. Copyediting is the phase prior to proofreading.

Authors, publishers, cyberspace sites and corporates cannot do without good copywriting. Having misspelled languages on a corporate profile, for illustration, immediately renders the company's reputation debatable. With the punctuation in the improper place, the deliberate communication can be suffered altogether, making it inept. Copyeditors engage in the tiresome and exacting process of making perfect up the written document before anything sees print.

Grammar is the soul of copyediting. The painstaking, exacting and undeviating editing process ensures the adequate use of languages, as in the case of easily interchangeable languages like adviser and advisor, advice and advise, use and utilize, reign and rein, among others. These languages are frequently ignored because they sound similar, but they have different meanings. Many a observing reader will know if a book, an advertisement, or a cyberspaces site page is indeed written and edited in utmost measures if these not only provide dependable content, but demonstrate content free of the wrong text, punctuation, spaces, layout, etc.

Although the function of a copyeditor is challenging, some actually enjoy it for the superior commitment to quality and correctness which it instills. Some copyeditors have even memorised style guides and manuals, making it simpler for them to apply these principles on a text they are copy-editing by heart and with the least degree of deviation. Copyeditors have impeccable discipline for correctness.

Copyediting services are highly in demand what with more books published every day and with even more web site pages made. Thanks to copyeditors, many book lovers and even the sharp crowd of web surfers enjoy a good read despite the inflow of materials which do not hold the same standards of a thorough copy.




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