Responsibilities
- Correcting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
- Sub-editing text written by a number of authors to ensure consistent house style.
- Working with IT-based publishing systems and databases, as well as via the internet, CD-ROMs or from paper manuscripts.
- Liaising regularly with authors and publishers by phone and email.
- Checking that authors have provided all the required materials and paperwork.
- Resolving queries directly with the author, e.g. style and text inconsistencies.
- Coding manuscripts for design features, such as hierarchy of headings, to instruct the production team.
- Creating artwork briefs to detail the content of illustrations.
- Ensuring that illustrations are correctly captioned and referred to in the text.
- Producing or working to a style checklist to ensure consistency in hyphenation, capitalisation, formatting of references etc.
- Maintaining awareness of new words or phrases coming into popular usage with a view to ensuring they're appropriate for the readership.
- Discussing and resolving any potentially libelous sections with the commissioning editor and author.
- Retrieving articles from archives and rearranging within publications.
- Preparing preliminary pages for the title, contents and preface of a publication.
- Overseeing the work of indexers, typesetters and designers.
- Typesetting and designing layout (increasingly for freelancers).
- Ensuring that publications are prepared on budget and to schedule.
- Managing marketing and business activities (for those who are self-employed).
- A thorough knowledge of English language (or the language the publication is written in)
- A methodical working style
- Concentration, accuracy and great attention to detail
- The ability to multitask
- Tact and diplomacy for negotiating changes with authors
- The ability to work to tight deadlines
- Self-motivation
- IT skills
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