Editing

Editing is the process of selecting and preparing images, sound, video, or film through processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media. A person who edits is called an editor. In a sense, the editing process creates with the idea for the work itself and continues in the correlation between the author and the editor. Editing is, therefore, also a practice that includes creative skills, human relations, and a precise set of methods.

A light edit or else recognized as a minor change may be regarded as changes that do not substantively change the theme, type facing, tone, structure, characters, or other elements of intellectual property that are held by the author. Such changes would include spelling, or grammar in a way that does not deviate from the author's use of, say, non-standard grammar or speech patterns. A heavy edit may change substantively the tone, structure, characters, or other elements of intellectual property contained in the work.

Technical editing involves reviewing text written on a technical topic, and identifying mistakes related to the use of language in general or devotion to a specific style guide. Technical editing may include any of the following: correction of grammatical mistakes, misspellings, mistyping, incorrect punctuation, inconsistencies in usages, poorly structured sentences, wrong scientific terms, wrong units and dimensions, changeability in significant figures, technical ambivalence, technical disambiguation, correction of statements conflicting with general scientific knowledge, correction of synopsis, content, index, headings and subheadings, correcting data and chart presentation in a research paper or report, correcting errors in citations.