It’s similar to adjuncting in that it’s something that people do because they enjoy the material, it allows them to use their intellectual skills, and it may be a steady stream of income, but they could certainly be making more money doing different kinds of copy editing jobs (e.g. And the pay rates for academic copy editing aren’t great. They’re probably self-employed, and any formal training they’ve received, they’ve paid for themselves, out of pocket. They don’t have job security or benefits. That means they are not employees of the press. For the most part, scholarly publishers hire copy editors as freelancers. Well first, since we’re talking about labor, let’s talk about how academic copy editors are employed and paid. I’ll break this discussion down into six parts/principles. But I think understanding what a copy editor has been tasked to do-they’re a laborer too-and what the industry expectations are for copyeditors might help authors feel a bit less personally attacked by copy editing activities. It’s frustrating to put so much time, effort, and thought into writing something and then have someone not understand what we were trying to do and change it.
When I hear authors talk about being copy edited, it’s usually to complain about a stylistic choice the copy editor has made that the author feels interferes with their own personal style or the intended meaning of their text. Like many (most?) aspects of academic publishing, it’s not very well explained anywhere, let alone systematically communicated as part of academic training. I wanted to write a post on copy editing because it’s a process I think many authors don’t fully understand. Or you might just be a person who is looking forward to the distant or not-so-distant day when you finally find yourself in that position.Īt some point after you submit your final manuscript and your book goes into production, it will be professionally copy edited. This post is for writers who are just wrapping up writing a scholarly book and submitting it to your publisher.
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