Journal 7

The writer uses research questions that are help guide her work. She wants to know more about the editors process, how they do it, what they look for, or ignore. She wants to know if the editors different strategies work differently, what works what doesn't. She wants to compare the ideas, thoughts and actions of the editors.

Professional editing differs in several ways. One is that professional editing is a process unto itself that occurs

independently of writing, whereas self-revision is one of the three sub-

processes of writing, the other two being planning and drafting. Professional editors have there work revised by a client or someone else with a professional degree. Plus professional editors do not intervene with the authors idea, they are merely for grammar an structural support. Professional editors is given a mandate to revise by an editor. Where as students use peer review and get feed back on how to change the story and address the ideas of the paper.

Research Methodology is the processes used by editors

as they perform their work and to grasp the justifications underlying par-

ticular modifications made to texts, we conducted a case study in a real

work environment. This is a way to collect knowledge and get reseacrh, helps avoid biased information. They collect there info by retrospective verbalization which is getting all there ideas and info put together before talking about it. They analyze there info by videotaping, recording, they take text of the original and compare with the modified version. When reading they read the passage a few times, once to get the meaning and then again to modify the work try and make changes, see whats wrong.