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Research India Press The Art and Science of Editing by Anup Taneja
About the Book Most authors feel that as a result of the changes made by the editors, their works might appear lessthan brilliant. A good editor is able to convince the authors that their genius would be obscured minusthe editorial revisions. Editors do not deny that the subject-matter of the manuscript is the authorsjurisdiction, but its presentation or organization and packaging, as Arthur Plotnik calls it, is the specialityof the editor. The editor who shows due regards to the authors knowledge of the subject and is ableto explain this dichotomy to him, succeeds in making the author to submit to his ways in matters of'packaging'.Arthur Plotnik