Comprensive edit

 Rude distinguishes between "copyediting" and "comprehensive editing." –In just a sentence, what do you feel to be the principal difference between the two? –What is the major problem with editors conducting comprehensive editing?

 A problem with any general list of guidelines such as this is how to apply them. I’m willing to bet you could take the worse piece of engineer or programmer written document and the author would say it conforms to these guidelines. One way to address the problem is to consider the lack of concreteness in the directive, rather than an overly general but true statement. How would you handle editing a document that does follow the letter of the guidelines but is essentially unreadable.

Start with  Document’s –Purpose –Readers –Uses

Focus on  Content  Organization  Visual design  Style  Use of illustrations

Edit, do not rewrite

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