Why editing matters.
Careful editing improves the clarity and accuracy of published material. The Journal of Southern History staff carefully checks every citation, every quotation, every statement of fact, every mathematical expression, and finds enough errors to justify its practice. Authors typically make a wide ra...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Quarterly. Vol. 77; pp. 198 - 204 |
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March 1996
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| Sumario: | Careful editing improves the clarity and accuracy of published material. The Journal of Southern History staff carefully checks every citation, every quotation, every statement of fact, every mathematical expression, and finds enough errors to justify its practice. Authors typically make a wide range of mistakes in both articles and book reviews, and exhortations to be accurate have little effect. The readers are the ultimate beneficiaries of intensive editing practices. Reprinted by permission of the University of Texas Press. |
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