Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion
A Guide for Professional Editors

This text is a guide for professional editors, providing recommendations and support for those working with fiction and non-fiction genres.

Renée Otmar (Author)

9781009154659, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 August 2023

340 pages
24 x 17 x 2 cm, 0.597 kg

'A wonderful resource for editors, publishing students, and media, film and publishing professionals practicing in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. It balances practical advice with experience and provides recommendations on how to manage difficult relationships with clients while navigating the editorial process.' Tresa LeClerc, Publishing Research Quarterly

Editors should approach their work with an informed worldview, ensuring that harmful stereotypes, cultural insensitivities and inaccurate information are avoided. Knowing how to do so – and what to replace them with – can be tricky. Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion is a guide for professional editors, providing evidence-based definitions, recommendations and support for emerging and experienced editors working with fiction and non-fiction genres. Part One introduces the foundations of professional editing and what editors need to know to conduct themselves well in professional contexts. Part Two applies this knowledge to professional practice, covering topics such as plagiarism, literary and cultural appropriation, critical appraisal, and developing a workplace policy and style guide. Part Three explores an extensive range of topics relevant to editing for sensitivity, diversity and inclusion, including addiction, dependence and recovery; class and socio-economic status; indigeneity; religious, spiritual and other belief systems; sex and gender identity; and trauma and torture.

Part I. Foundations
1. The importance of professional editing
2. How to use this book
3. Important definitions
4. Legal, ideological, philosophical, scientific and theoretical contexts
Part II. Professional practice
5. Identifying the explanatory framework within a text
6. Literary worth versus literary intention
7. Plagiarism
8. Literary appropriation
9. Cultural appropriation
10. Decolonisation
11. Legal reading
12. The main types of critical appraisal
13. Editing for sensitivity, diversity and inclusion
14. Moral and ethical dimensions of editing
15. Developing a workplace policy and style guide
16. Principles for a professional practice
17. Care of the self
18. Conclusion
Part III. Guide.

Subject Areas: Writing & editing guides [CBW]