Answer: One finding of
this research study was that “editing may be a more cognitively complex task
that theorists and practitioners have thought.” P. 398.
Quote: “Future
studies might alter the design used in this study to verify what can only be
inferred here: that editing, rather than being easier than revising, is a
complex task that requires editors to draw on and coordinate as many aspects of
rhetorical and cognitive processes as writers do when they approach a totally
new rhetorical problem.:” p. 419.
Comment: Editing has always been thought of as strictly
“surface features” like grammar which are easier to correct than revision.
Maybe those “surface features” are more complex to correct than has been
originally thought. I have always wondered how revision and editing could be
separated. In some cases, the problem involves both. RayS.
Title: “A Study of
Professional and Experienced Writers Revising and Editing at the Computer and
with Pen and Paper.” Jean A Lutz. Research
in the Teaching of English (December
1987), 398-421.
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