ABSTRACT
We have considered the rhetorical canons of invention, arrangement, style, and delivery and the corresponding editorial objectives of accuracy, clarity, propriety, and artistry. This isolation of the canons, however, disguises the complexity and creativity of the editor’s job. Editing is a fluid and recursive process requiring the integration of the canons. The editor’s decisions on accuracy, for example, influence his or her ideas on clarity, propriety, and artistry, and vice versa. Editing is thus never a static series of discrete analyses: it is a dynamic array of simultaneous and interactive evaluations (see Figure E.1).
