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Microediting – details matter Quality, authority, and reputation: The value of microediting
Volume 27, Issue 3 - Editing
Microediting – details matter Quality, authority, and reputation: The value of microediting
Authors: Marian Hodges, Barbara Grossman
Abstract
Microediting aims to ensure consistency aswell as accuracy within a document and across a document series. Also known as technical editing or mechanical editing, it is an important stage in editing, needed to gain and retain a reader’s interest and respect: to assure them that you are giving them a high quality product. Microediting can involve a large number of wide-ranging tasks, from language editing to formatting and checking the accuracy of data or hyperlinks. We suggest a structured and methodical approach that keeps the reader in mind.
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- Anuradha Alahari (PAREXEL International, Paris, France)
- Raquel Billiones (Clinipace, Zurich, Switzerland)
- Barbara Grossman (Hawkeye Medical Limited, Berkshire, UK)
- Joselita T Salita (Freelance, Bremen, Germany)
- Nathan Susnik (Hanover Medical School, Hanover, Germany)
- Clare (Chi-Chih) Chang
- Jonathan Pitt
Section Editors:
- Alison McIntosh (ICON Clinical Research, Hampshire, UK)
- Wendy Kingdom (Wendy Kingdom Ltd., Dulverton, UK)
- Lisa Chamberlain-James (Trilogy Writing and Consulting, Norfolk, UK)
- Maria Koltowska-Haggstrom (Proper Medical Writing Warsaw, Poland)
- Laura Collada Ali (Teksema, Cogne, Italy)
- Hervé Maisonneuve (Freelance, Lyon, France)
- Satyen Shenoy (Describe Scientific Writing & Communications, Cologne, Germany)
- Claire Gudex (Klinisk Institut, Odense, Denmark)
- Beatrix Doerr
- Sam Hamilton (Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)
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- Amy Whereat (SpeaktheSpeech Consulting, Asnieres sur Seine, France)
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- Elise Langdon-Neuner (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)