Friday, January 30, 2009

Journal Entry #7

1. What the writer of the discourse analysis article is trying to find out more about, through research, is identifying the specific approach used by professional editors to enable researchers to better grasp the revision process.

2. The research methodology of this article is collecting different professional editors and observing their tactics during their revision processes.

3. Professional editing differs from how students revise their own work because professional editing is a process unto itself that occurs independently of writing, whereas self-revision is one of the three subprocesses of writing, the other two being planning and drafting. Also other major differences worth noting is that a professional editor performs his/her work on a text devised by another person, the second main difference consists in the fact that a professional editor
is given a mandate to revise by a client.

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