To ensure that material is clear and consistent, complete and credible, and that text is well written, grammatically correct and accessible.
To work on a range of publications, including:
• Translations
• books
• journals
• newspapers
• website
• social media contents.
To correct spelling, grammar and layout (proofreading), or check content, impose consistent styles and reword or rewrite (copy-editing). This depends on the project, the employer or the client and their own specialist experience. Mostly required to perform both functions in tandem.
Responsibilities
Work activities depend on experience and may include:
• 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 libellous 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;
• ensuring that publications are prepared up to standards of tone of voice, style of writing and specific requirements provided by the customer;
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2016-08-21 |
| Job Location: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Job Role: | Other |
| Company Industry: | Translation; Marketing; Journalism |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Mid Career |
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