{"id":593,"date":"2006-06-19T23:45:21","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T03:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=593"},"modified":"2006-06-19T23:45:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T03:45:21","slug":"the-leisurely-pace-of-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=593","title":{"rendered":"The leisurely pace of editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent over half of my worktime today doing editing stuff&#151;sending out most of the disposition e-mails to authors I owed (still have two or three left for tomorrow) and seeing if the new article is up yet (it is, but I&#8217;m too tired to vet an e-mail announcement, so that&#8217;s tomorrow&#8217;s first task).<br \/>\nReading manuscripts, whether incoming or after reviews, is one of the more demanding parts of editing, and it&#8217;s the second-most enjoyable task I have as an editor.  Polishing an article&#8217;s look is detail work, I&#8217;m not perfect at it, and it&#8217;s not about the ideas for the most part. Helping an author improve a piece is <em>definitely<\/em> the most rewarding part of editing. But after that, the initial read and then the re-read after reviews are returned are a fascinating exercise in listening to perspectives and reading with three lenses on: Would it contribute something? Do I see what the reviewers saw? Am I seeing everything I can here? That attempt to keep multiple perspectives in the air is harder than reading dense prose.<br \/>\nIt also means I can&#8217;t quickly skim the type of article I was going over today&#151;papers where the reviewers were generally positive but mixed. <em>Would it contribute something?<\/em> became <em>Would it contribute enough, given everything else?<\/em>  <em>Do I see what the reviewers saw?<\/em> became <em>How do I sort these issues in order of importance?<\/em> <em>Am I seeing everything I can here?<\/em> is of course the hardest one, and explains why I spent more than an hour rereading and deciding how to write a <em>revise-and-request<\/em> letter for the first MS I tackled this morning.  That was relatively quick, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent over half of my worktime today doing editing stuff&#151;sending out most of the disposition e-mails to authors I owed (still have two or three left for tomorrow) and seeing if the new article is up yet (it is, but I&#8217;m too tired to vet an e-mail announcement, so that&#8217;s tomorrow&#8217;s first task). Reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-epaa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-9z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}