Editing research : the author editing approach to providing effective support to writers of research papers / Valerie Matarese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matarese, Valerie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Editing.

Manuscript preparation (Authorship).

Report writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

Medford : Information Today, Inc., 2017.

Medford, New Jersey : Information Today, Inc., 2016.

Summary:

Valerie Matarese documents the history of author editing and illustrates, through interviews with experienced editors, the varied ways in which these language professionals support researchers in their efforts to publish. Editing Research fills a void in the historical record of academic publishing and provides an up-to-date account of how authors' editors facilitate research communication and contribute to good publication practice.

Contents:

Aims and challenges of writing for publication in today's global research environment

Editing in the sciences and other scholarly disciplines

Authors' editors : partners in communication at the service of researchers and readers

Authors' editors in action : a qualitative research foray

View from the academy : the delicate position of editing services among needs and concerns

Editing research articles and other genres for publication in peer-reviewed scholarly journals

Becoming and being an authors' editor

The editing setting

Editing scholarly genres for other media : common goals but unique issues

Synthesis and projection

Appendix 1. Membership associations of particular relevance to authors' editors

Appendix 2. Peer-reviewed journals of relevance to author editing.

Notes:

Title from eBook information screen..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2016).

ISBN:

1-57387-683-6