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Agency in Editing

By Obododimma Oha INTRODUCTION Who edits the other? Is that assignment necessary? Who are editors? Is editing a recognized job or is it self-imposed? In this lecture, we are going to discuss this some of the agents in editing, such as the teacher, the computer,  and the professional editor.  It should also be pointed out that, even though we focus primarily on  the written text, editorial work extends to video-making and other visuals. They require a professional touch, based on what is good for the market.  The Teacher as an Editor Teachers have the commitment of pointing out act good path in learning. In the process, they can spot out unacceptable usages in students' texts. But they are not fault-finders and the red pen used for correction is not supposed to be dreaded. The red pen used by the teacher shows that texts are supposed to be processed to find out where their producers are headed. So, teachers are naturally editors of texts in learning and of behavior.  Teachers leave
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The Concepts of Writing and Editing

By Obododimma Oha Introduction Every person that uses language has the need to make adjustments sometimes. This lecture will partly focus on why those adjustments are necessary sometimes. It will also try to explain the concept that are central to the course - - writing and editing.  But let us look generally at the main issue here. Writing will be discussed in greater detail later but let us for now settle with the definition that it is an employment of symbols to which meanings are attached in some ways to convey an idea. So, right here at the very beginning we observe that writing calls for an ability to read. In that case, whether we write on a wall, a piece of paper, or a slate, there is the assumption that a human being later can process the piece of writing, which we call reading. Thus, it is important for us to understand what we are doing when we are writing. We are doing other things like : -- we are trying to share information.  -- we are trying to affect the behavior of rea
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