{"id":34,"date":"2015-01-17T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2015-01-19T00:12:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T00:12:56","slug":"assessing-your-editing-needs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"Assessing your editing needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The first step in getting your manuscript into great shape is assessing your editing needs. Here is a rough breakdown of the basic levels of editing.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Developmental or project editing:<\/strong> Coordinating and editing a project from proposal or rough manuscript to final manuscript, incorporating input from authors or reviewers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rewriting:<\/strong> Creating a new manuscript or sections of a manuscript using content and research supplied by the author.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revising (or substantive editing)<\/strong>: Making substantive changes to the organization or argumentation in any section of a manuscript.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyediting<\/strong>: Editing grammar, usage, wording, spelling, punctuation, and style; checking for consistency in mechanics and for internal consistency of facts; ensuring conformity to style guides. This level of editing can run from heavy (more than 20 errors per page) to light (fewer than 10 errors per page).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proofreading<\/strong>: Checking proofs of formatted, edited material for minor errors (e.g., in spelling or punctuation).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first step in getting your manuscript into great shape is assessing your editing needs. Here is a rough breakdown of the basic levels of editing. Developmental or project editing: Coordinating and editing a project from proposal or rough manuscript to final manuscript, incorporating input from authors or reviewers. Rewriting: Creating a new manuscript or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judithrobey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}