ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the roles and relationships of editors and authors in both editing and proofreading of student writing, and the editing and proofreading of chapters to be submitted for publication. Accordingly, the chapter shares the narratives of a book editor and a chapter author and examines the dynamics that shaped the mediation as a support and empowering strategy. Additionally, the chapter juxtaposes these narratives beside the participants’ editorial experiences in a student support centre proofreading and editing students’ writing in order to show how the dynamics of these two social practices and contexts compare and contrast. Adopting a collaborative auto-ethnographic methodological framework, the chapter intends to draw attention to mediation as not only a rhetorical practice but as a broader social practice whose humanist and relational dimensions deserve further scholarly focus.
