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Introduction to Professional Academic Editing

Welcome and course logistics

Meet your instructors
How to take this course
Before you begin

The academic publishing world

Academic publishing roles (19:14)
Editing scholarship (11:29)
Peer review (9:51)

Starting your edit

Asking the right questions (16:18)
Prepping files (15:50)
Editorial triage and priorities (21:42)

Developmental editing

What makes a good scholarly text? (16:42)
Editing for argument and arc (24:21)
Editing for engagement with sources (14:19)
Dissertation-to-book editing (25:15)

Copyediting

Style manuals, style guides, and style sheets (13:56)
The politics of grammar (9:16)
Anatomy of a citation (21:31)
Troubleshooting copyedits (9:47)

Editorial relationships

Working well with authors (13:10)
Phrasing your edits (20:37)

Professional development

Editing tools (17:39)
Editorial communities and training (13:17)
Scholarly communities and training (10:21)

Wrap-up

Next steps
Resources

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