A Guide to Documentary Editing

Drawing on practical experience, this text details every step of the editing process as now practised in the electronic information age: planning a project; organizing materials; evaluating and transcribing texts; applying textual and editorial conventions; and preparing the edition for the publisher. It also examines alternative forms of documentary publication such as CD-ROMs, locally-available text bases and Internet sites. In addition, there is an updated survey of literature in areas such as document selection, annotation and non-verbal sources.