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    Editing Skills

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    Definition:

     Editing involves carefully reviewing material


    before it is published and suggesting or making
    changes to correct or improve it. The editor
    must communicate clearly and tactfully with all
    team members, and clearly mark and convey
    changes, suggestions, and directions.
    3
    CORE SKILLS

    STRUCTURAL EDITING STYLISTIC EDITING


      revising, reordering, cutting, or expanding  eliminating jargon, clichés, and euphemisms
    material   establishing or maintaining the language
      writing original material level
      determining whether permissions are   adjusting the length and structure of
    necessary sentences and paragraphs
      recasting material that would be better   establishing or maintaining tone, mood,
    presented copy) and style.
    4
    EDITIONAL SKILLS

    1. Acquisitions Editing
    2. Comparative Editing
    3. Electronic Coding or Tagging
    4. Fact Checking
    5. Formatting
    6. Manuscript Evaluation
    7. Production Editing
    Project Editing 5

    • Budgeting
    • Scheduling
    • Hiring or supervising non-editorial professionals

    Rewriting

    • Research
    • Writing original material
    • Fact checking
    6
    Chart Title
    6

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    project rewriting line editing copy editing

    Series 1 Series 2 Series 3


    7

    A lot can change in the


    editing room.
    Diane Lane

    The process of editing is what I enjoy most -


    putting the pieces together and making sense out
    of them.
    Christian Marclay
    8
    Nine Steps to Improve Editing Skills

     Develop a mastery of the English language. ...


     Know the purpose of the work you are editing. ...
     Familiarize yourself with the necessary style. ...
     Have the confidence to spot and fix errors. ...
     Give yourself time to do the job right. ...
     Read it through once for comprehension
     Re-read each sentence individually, making corrections as needed
     Review the work again by paragraph or section
     Run an electronic spell check
    9
    The 3 different types of editing

    content editor  line editor  copy editor


    • points out things such as plot • points out things such as • checks for grammar
    holes, passive voice, • spelling
    • flat characters, • wordiness, • punctuation mistakes.
    • pacing issues, • weak words,
    • unrealistic dialogue,
    • overused words,
    • point of view errors,
    • redundancies
    • too much “telling,” 
    6 Great YouTube Channels to Learn Video
    Editing From 10

    1. Justin Odisho

    2. Justin Brown – Primal Video

    3. Adobe in a Minute

    4. JustAlexHalford

    5. Chris’ Tutorials

    6. Michael Kinney
    11
    Best photo editing apps in 2021

    1.  PicsArt
    2. Snapseed
    3. Adobe Photoshop Camera
    4. Pixlr
    5. Adobe Lightroom
    6. Instagram
    7. Google Photos
    8. Prisma
    9. Facetune 2
    10. Afterlight 
    12
    Best video editing apps in 2021

    1. InVideo.
    2. InShot.
    3. FilmoraGo.
    4. iMovie.
    5. LumaFusion.
    6. Adobe Premiere Rush.
    7. Filmmaker Pro.
    8. WeVideo.
    9. Shotcut
    10. Blender

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