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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Sidebars -- Foreword -- Note -- Preface -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Birth, Metamorphosis, and Flight a Research Article -- Chapter 1: Aims and Challenges of Writing for Publicationin Today's Global Research Environment -- The Research Publishing Landscape -- The State of Scholarly Writing -- The Internationalization of Scholarly Writing -- English for Research Publication Purposes -- Challenges of Research Writing -- Skilled Researchers, Novice Authors -- EAL Scholars and English Rhetoric and Logic -- Genre Conventions, Reporting Guidelines, and the Scholarly Method -- Writing in Isolation -- Less Support from Publishers -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Editing in the Sciences and Other Scholarly Disciplines -- Editing Defined -- The First Publishers and Editors -- Levels of Editing -- Proofreading -- Copy Editing -- Language Editing -- Substantive Editing -- Developmental Editing -- A Temporal Classification of Editing -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Authors' Editors: Partners in Communication at the Service of Researchers and Readers -- The First Authors' Editors -- Development of Author Editing for Research -- The Early Years -- Quiet Economic Upheaval -- Authors' Editors and Journal Editors -- Authors' Editors and the Internationalization of Scholarly Literature: European Experience -- Authors' Editors Do Author Editing -- Do We Call Ourselves Authors' Editors? -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Authors' Editors in Action: A Qualitative Research Foray -- Research Design -- Expert Informants -- Bibliographic Research and Integration with Qualitative Research Findings -- Chapter 5: View from the Academy: The Delicate Position of Editing Services among Needs and Concerns -- Researchers' Motivations to Seek Editing -- Presubmission Editing -- Editing After an R&amp.

R Decision -- Editing After Multiple Rejections: Developmental Editing -- Researchers' Vocalization of the Editing Request -- Alternative Academic Views of Editors and Editing -- Literacy Brokers -- Proofreaders -- Editors as Scholars of Editing -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Editing Research Articles and Other Genres for Publication in Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Journals -- Substantive Editing of Research Papers -- Structure and Content -- Substantiation, Citation, and Attribution -- Pre-review -- Author Editing Requires Dialog with Authors -- Added Value for Researcher-Authors -- Plagiarism Checking -- Didactic Editing -- Post-Peer Review Guidance -- Better Science Communication, Less Research Waste, and Safeguarded Investments -- What Author Editing Is Not -- Ethical Limitations to Editing -- Services Outside the Realm of Author Editing -- Acknowledgments and Editing Certificates -- The Impact of Editing -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Becoming and Being an Authors' Editor -- Career Path to Author Editing -- Networks for Collegiate Exchange and Training Opportunities -- Certificates of Achievement and Certification of Skills -- Educational Background -- Language Specialists or Subject Specialists? -- Former Researchers as Authors' Editors: Pros and Cons -- Field Specialization -- Multilingualism and Multiculturalism -- Rapport with Clients -- Versatility -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The Editing Setting -- Autonomous Editing (Freelance Editors) -- Language Professionals with Business Skills -- Research Center Editing (In-house Editors) -- Authors' Editors as Research Support Staff or Core Facility -- Setting Up an Institutional Editing Service -- Service Provider Editing (Editors Working Through an Intermediary) -- Publicase: Brazilian Editors for Portuguese-speaking Researchers -- Biomeditore: Boutique Editing for Asian Researchers.

The Business of Author Editing -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Editing Scholarly Genres for Other Media: Common Goals but Unique Issues -- Grant Applications -- Lay Summaries -- Press Releases -- Web Content and Other Digital Media -- Theses and Dissertations -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Synthesis and Projection -- What We Have Learned So Far -- What We Have Yet to Learn -- Advice to Authors' Editors -- Mentor and Be Mentored -- Be Business-Wise -- Come from the Science -- Advice to Research Administrators -- The Future of Author Editing -- Notes -- Appendices -- Appendix 1. Membership Associations of Particular Relevance to Authors' Editors -- Notes -- Appendix 2. Peer-Reviewed Journals of Relevance to Author Editing -- References -- Abbreviations -- About the Author -- Index.

Editors who work directly with academic researchers, helping to make their draft manuscripts suitable for publication in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, refer to themselves as "authors' editors." As a profession, author editing has been around for more than a half-century, but its role in research communication is often underappreciated and sometimes misunderstood. Authors' editor and former researcher Valerie Matarese documents the history of author editing and illustrates, through interviews with experienced editors, the varied ways in which these language professionals support researchers in their efforts to publish. Editing Research fills a void in the historical record of academic publishing and provides an up-to-date account of how authors' editors facilitate research communication and contribute to good publication practice.

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