ABSTRACT
A full description of the organization of work within publishing organizations is beyond the scope of this book; in this chapter, we’ll just look briefly at the jobs of people who work as editors. We’ll then distinguish editing from adapting and rewriting, and look at the editing work done mentally by translators when their source texts are poorly written, as well as the editing of non-native English. Texts are of course also edited by people who are not professional editors or translators, but this topic will not be considered here. The chapter concludes with a discussion of degrees of editing.
