ABSTRACT
Editors are artists. And, as artists, editors must be prepared to be actively engaged in every phase of the creative process culminating in their art—the text. They may take other writers’ texts and help shape them for presentation to readers, or they may compose texts themselves, using their expertise in the craft of writing; they may weave together a number of works into a tapestry—an edition or collection of texts; they may design the actual aesthetic presentation of texts—typeface, type size, paper, etc. It is this identification with the artist that yields an effective editor, for written discourse represents art—from the time it is a part of a writer’s imagination to the time its shape is determined through trial and error, to the time its form becomes distinct and stylistically pleasing, to the time the work is presented for others to read. Understanding the rhetorical repertoire of editors is the purpose of this book.
