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Unit 4
The stages of the editor's work over the text

I. Read the following text.

The editor of oil and gas texts is a specialist who reads and rules the oil and
gas publication of the author in accordance with existing norms, rules and certain

industry features of editing oil and gas texts, expresses his thoughts and wishes

regarding the language and style, promotes the improvement of the text, which is

being prepared for publication or transmission by audiovisual means. As M. Feller

notes, the work of the modern editor is complex and diverse. And as such, it needs

to ascertain the nature of editorial activity. The essence of this activity is not only

the mastery of the technology of editing, the peculiarities of the organization of

work, because the editor is not easy to edit the text, it helps the author to create a

text whose opinion will be understood by readers. Therefore, the editor of the oil

and gas texts himself should be knowledgeable in the oil and gas field in which the

oil and gas text was written. Since the editor is an intermediary between the author

and his work, work and addressee, then he needs to have knowledge of textology,

logic, communication theory, technology of perception. Similarly, the editor must

know the industry, the texts of which he edits.

The main tasks of the editor include:

1) text analysis;

2) his professional assessment;

3) correction (editing).

The oil and gas text editor should look at the text of an outsider's eye, that is,

to be objective. There are various editorial sequence sequences. So, A. Milchin

highlights the following stages of the editing process:

1. The most general analysis and preliminary evaluation of the manuscript

by the editor (this is the so-called preliminary review).

2. Analysis and evaluation of the manuscript by external reviewer, or

external review of the author's work by the editor.