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Parchment to PDF

Self-Editing: A Resolution to Edit Yourself

21/1/2020

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Scrabble pieces spelling Resolutions on black background
​It’s a new year, and many people make resolutions to edit their lives, so to speak: exercise more, eat or drink less, get their homes in order by editing out unneeded objects.
​What about editing yourself, as in your words?

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Parchment to PDF, or Confessions of a Freelance Academic Editor

27/8/2018

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Woman's hand on computer mouse with a pen between her fingers and the corner of a computer screen and keyboard in the background
​"Click. Add note to replace text. Add text box with notation for typesetting. Strike through text. Insert correct source at cursor." I am working in Adobe Acrobat on page proofs, preparing them for publication with a university press. I have been invested in this project from:
  • the original manuscript submitted by the author to the press
  • copyediting the entire manuscript
  • sending it back to the author for review
  • cleaning up the reviewed manuscript by incorporating my many edits, suggestions, queries, and the author’s corrections
  • connecting directly with the author on any queries or points for clarification
  • preparing the manuscript for final submission to production
  • to now proofhandling the proofread printed pages and copyediting the index keyed to those pages.

A Different Kind of Manuscript
 
Twenty years ago, however, you would have found me in the venerable Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan or Biblioteca Statale of Cremona in Italy, perusing a different kind of manuscript – ones written by hand on vellum or parchment paper in the late Middle Ages. I imagined a life of research, studying the written treasures hidden within the pages of such medieval manuscripts – accessible only to those trained to read the cryptic script and qualified to handle the fragile pages – and teaching Latin to university students. How did I end up working on modern books, on digital platforms, for other scholars?

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    I am Carla DeSantis, and welcome to my blog! I love language and words and books, and have turned this love into a business, helping others to perfect their written message.

    I am an editor who specializes in scholarly and academic works, and I help professors, scholars, authors, and publishers polish their work for publication. I focus on the details so you don't have to!

    Because of my experience in academia, research, and publishing, I can confidently handle scholarly apparatus and complex works with the expert care that academic authors need.

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