tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post5036070710324535669..comments2023-04-07T02:47:51.081-10:00Comments on Edit Hawai‘i: StylePathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04525687436544097069noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post-42341563223544628242007-02-13T22:56:00.000-10:002007-02-13T22:56:00.000-10:00Your textbook has a good definition; it's in the g...Your textbook has a good definition; it's in the glossary, which appears at the end of the book.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525687436544097069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post-33768607884143082132007-02-08T23:12:00.000-10:002007-02-08T23:12:00.000-10:00So, what is "style"?So, what is "style"?R Delarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15915944490250300415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004649849101357455.post-83239570904924943882007-02-05T16:40:00.000-10:002007-02-05T16:40:00.000-10:00I have been thinking about the letter and poem. Ov...I have been thinking about the letter and poem. Overall, the poem is better written than the letter, and I wonder now if the poem was written by one person and the letter by another; or perhaps the poem is a string of clichés with an occasional original line. Also, the letter structures English in a way that is quite alien, and I wonder if it was written by a non-native English speaker consulting a dictionary. <br /><br />If I were to use a dictionary and my limited knowledge of Japanese to compose a letter to a Japanese speaker, I would probably come up with something equally odd.<br /><br />As I said in class, the exercise is an exaggerated version of what you will be given as a copyeditor. However, I gave it to you so that you would grapple with the most fundamental editing questions:<br /><br />1. What is the author saying?<br />2. How is he or she saying it?<br />3. What mechanical errors—grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc.—can be corrected without disturbance to the author's style?<br />4. What stylistic errors are there?<br />5. How can the errors in style be brought to the author's attention without injury to the copyeditor-author relationship?<br /><br />It is unlikely that anything like the poem and letter will ever be given to you as a copyeditor. However, there will be times when you struggle with these fundamental questions almost as much as you did on Friday. I will try to remember to bring in the original of a wonderful Tibetan story that we published some years ago; when you compare the original with the printed version, you'll get an idea of all the problems that had to be solved to make the work publishable.Pathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04525687436544097069noreply@blogger.com