About Empowering Editing
Empowering Editing was launched in February 2024 as a business partnership between Emilio Anteliz (a Venezuelan engineer) and Patrick Danaher (an Australian educator) to provide a comprehensive range of substantive editing, copyediting and proofreading services to academics, researchers, research students, authors, businesses and anyone else needing accurate and high quality editing support.
The following definitions of these different types of editing are taken from the Australian Institute of Professional Editors Limited webpage:
https://www.iped-editors.org/about-editing/types-of-editing/
"Substantive editing (sometimes called structural or content editing) aims to ensure that the structure, content, language, style and presentation of the document are suitable for its intended purpose and readership."
"Copyediting aims to achieve accuracy, clarity and consistency in a document. It does not involve significant rewriting, providing a single authorial voice or tailoring text to a specific audience – these belong to a substantive edit."
"Proofreading (usually called this but sometimes known as verification editing) involves checking that the document is ready to be published. It includes making sure that all elements of the document are included and in the proper order, all amendments have been inserted, the house or other set style has been followed, and all spelling or punctuation errors have been deleted."
More broadly, Empowering Editing was founded on the principle that, regardless of the type of editing being used, editing can and should be an empowering experience for the author/s of the text being edited. This sense of empowerment occurs when, instead of being a mysterious process that needs decoding, academic and creative writing is understood as a task whose codes are unlocked and whose secrets are revealed. From this perspective, empowered editing can be undertaken with enhanced knowledge and understanding, and with justified confidence in the accuracy and quality of the finished product.
The following definitions of these different types of editing are taken from the Australian Institute of Professional Editors Limited webpage:
https://www.iped-editors.org/about-editing/types-of-editing/
"Substantive editing (sometimes called structural or content editing) aims to ensure that the structure, content, language, style and presentation of the document are suitable for its intended purpose and readership."
"Copyediting aims to achieve accuracy, clarity and consistency in a document. It does not involve significant rewriting, providing a single authorial voice or tailoring text to a specific audience – these belong to a substantive edit."
"Proofreading (usually called this but sometimes known as verification editing) involves checking that the document is ready to be published. It includes making sure that all elements of the document are included and in the proper order, all amendments have been inserted, the house or other set style has been followed, and all spelling or punctuation errors have been deleted."
More broadly, Empowering Editing was founded on the principle that, regardless of the type of editing being used, editing can and should be an empowering experience for the author/s of the text being edited. This sense of empowerment occurs when, instead of being a mysterious process that needs decoding, academic and creative writing is understood as a task whose codes are unlocked and whose secrets are revealed. From this perspective, empowered editing can be undertaken with enhanced knowledge and understanding, and with justified confidence in the accuracy and quality of the finished product.
