Types of Editing

With advent of Desktop publishing, the process of editing became revolutionized. The possibility of editing compositions on-screen has made the task of professionals both easy and cheap.

It is asserted by media gurus that post-digitization, wordsmiths and grammarians are required but those who know Quark have the edge in crisis.
Moreover, a regular copy editor today is expected to be simultaneously producing an SEO(Search Engine Optimization), a copy not just suitable for web but targeted most frequently in search terms and making the text visible during browsing quests of prospective readers.

Based on current trends, editing has evolved into the following types:

Developmental Editing

When qualitative editing is required at the manuscript level for a Work in Progress(WIP) or when the manuscript is complete. It deals with story-telling techniques and writing skills and sometimes with the book design including placement of chapters.

It may require re-writing the story or re-working the plot.

Substantive Editing/Content Editing

Even a promising manuscript requires editing. The narrative may be engaging, the writing skills may be enviable and yet editing may be required for consistency and coherence. It may be desirable in keeping with norms and conventions of storytelling and even where there are deviations to create a cogent impression.

Some characters may need to appear more flesh and blood, certain loose-ends may require tying up, some images may be unintentionally left incomplete and may need finishing touches.

The intention of the author shall be executed by the editor in substantive editing.

Stylistic Editing/Line editing

This editing is executed for paragraphs and sentences.The aesthetic impression is consolidated by balancing narrative with dialogue or focalization with performative elements.Simply, what is told and what is shown and how...

Copy editing

Not to confuse with stylistic editing or line editing, it is copy editing that turns out a manuscript that conforms to the style sheets as per the convention.

It aims at refining the syntax and removing inconsistencies that may be factual, chronological  or grammatical.

Proofreading

It double-checks the manuscript and eliminates any errors and inconsistencies especially in spellings, punctuation and grammars left over by the copy editor.




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Globe- trotter Arrives at the Universe-city! YMCAUST August 17, 2016

Globe- trotter Arrives at the Universe-city!

YMCAUST August 17, 2016

Finally, the university had a globe-trotter arriving here. YMCAUST was the destination for Dr Deepti Singh Gupta, travel writer and photographer when she had a surfeit of ideas on ‘Travel Trends and Careers’ to share with aspiring journalists and amateur photographers. Deepti Singh Gupta has just held an exhibition of her travel photographs at the India Habitat Centre. Her work has found mention in national dailies like Deccan Herald and Pioneer.

The students were kept mesmerized by the spectacular landscape photography, impressive silhouettes and ethereal profile in her artwork.  The whole panorama of contemporary media practices was laid out for the media aspirants to explore and understand. Her talk probed a range of subjects from marketing strategies using microblogging and new media to travel writing ‘mantras’ and pitfalls.

Deepti Singh’s write- ups as well as travel photographs have featured in celebrated magazines like Lonely Planet magazine and site, National Geographic and National Geographic Traveller, Economic Times ‘Travel’ and Times of India travel site –‘Happy Trips’ while she has  also curated photo exhibitions of her travel images under the name 'Postcards From Paradise'. This freelance photographer set up a travel blog in 2013 and remains an avid blogger documenting and tweeting her travel tales @GlobalPitara.

The prestigious Art Nouveau Gallery held an online exhibition of her selected artwork in December 2015. Currently her artwork can be accessed at the internationally acclaimed Saatchi Art. She has been invited to deliver Travel Talk at the very popular Oxford Bookstore.

An environmentalist by education with a doctorate in Botany, but a traveller in spirit and soul, she was interviewed by Hindustan Times and also wrote for HT City lately.

She has served as President of a Rotary Club for two consecutive years and remains associated with social concerns of the town.

Dr Rajkumar, Dean & Chairperson, Humanities & Sciences was present on the occasion. 

For Pictures Visit:

http://www.globalpitara.in/

http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/tag/global-pitara/

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Those Poststorm Spectacular Sunsets, Explained

By C. CLAIBORNE RAYAUG. 8, 2016

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Q. Why does a spectacular sunset so often follow a late-afternoon thunderstorm?

A. Some of the important factors in a photo-worthy red-orange sunset after a storm include timing, cloud patterns, the scattering of sunlight, and air quality in the lower atmosphere, according to the Storm Prediction Center of the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Most thunderstorms occur in the late afternoon or the evening, close to sunset, when radiant heating and atmospheric instability have reached their peaks. In the aftermath of such a storm, midlevel and high clouds may be left behind, especially cirrus and altocumulus clouds that are ideal as a canvas for painting by the sun’s last rays.

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Water-filled clouds in the lower atmosphere will have been depleted by the storm.

Those last rays are mostly red or orange because the longer path that light takes through the atmosphere as the sun’s angle becomes ever lower means that the wavelengths of other colors have been scattered away.

Contrary to popular belief, clean air scrubbed by a storm lets more red rays reach the viewer than dirty air would.

Dust and smog at low levels would scatter the light too much for an ideal sunset. (High-level particles like those left by a volcanic eruption, can, however, cause a red afterglow.) question@nytimes.com.

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The Particle That Wasn’t

By DENNIS OVERBYEAUG. 5, 2016

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A great “might have been” for the universe, or at least for the people who study it, disappeared Friday.

Last December, two teams of physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider reported that they might have seen traces of what could be a new fundamental constituent of nature, an elementary particle that is not part of the Standard Model that has ruled particle physics for the last half-century.

A bump on a graph signaling excess pairs of gamma rays was most likely a statistical fluke, they said. But physicists have been holding their breath ever since.

If real, the new particle would have opened a crack between the known and the unknown, affording a glimpse of quantum secrets undreamed of even by Einstein. Answers to questions like why there is matter but not antimatter in the universe, or the identity of the mysterious dark matter that provides the gravitational glue in the cosmos. In the few months after the announcement, 500 papers were written trying to interpret the meaning of the putative particle.

On Friday, physicists from the same two CERN teams reported that under the onslaught of more data, the possibility of a particle had melted away.

“We don’t see anything,” said Tiziano Camporesi of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and a spokesman for one of the detector teams known as C.M.S., on the eve of the announcement. “In fact, there is even a small deficit exactly at that point.”

His statement was echoed by a member of the competing team, known as Atlas. James Beacham, of Ohio State University, said, “As it stands now, the bumplet has gone into a flatline.”

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“This is the success of science, this is what science does,” he added.

Dr. Camporesi said, “It’s disappointing because so much hype has been made about it.” But, he added, noting that the experimenters had always cautioned that the bump was most likely a fluke, “we have always been very cool about it.”

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The new results were presented in Chicago at the International Conference of High Energy Physics, ICHEP for short, by Bruno Lenzi of CERN for the Atlas team, and Chiara Rovelli for their competitors named for their own detector called C.M.S., short for Compact Muon Solenoid.

The presentations were part of an outpouring of dozens of papers from the two teams on the results so far this year from the collider, all of them in general agreement with the Standard Model.

The main news is that the collider, which had a rocky start, exploding back in 2008, is now running “swimmingly” in CERN’s words, producing up to a billion proton-proton collisions a second.

“We’re just at the beginning of the journey,” said Fabiola Gianotti, CERN’s director-general, in a statement.

But perhaps nature has not gotten the memo.

The non-result has further deepened an already deep mystery about the famous Higgs boson, which explains why other particles have mass, and whose discovery resulted in showers of champagne and Nobel Prizes four years ago.

The Higgs, one of the heaviest elementary particles known, weighs about 125 billion electron volts, in the units of mass and energy favored by particle physicists — about as much as an entire iodine atom. That, however, is way too light by a factor of trillions according to standard quantum calculations, physicists say, unless there is some new phenomenon, some new physics, exerting its influence on the universe and keeping the Higgs mass from zooming to cataclysmic scales. That would mean new particles.

“We have seen the Higgs, we expect to see something else,” said Lisa Randall, a Harvard particle theorist who was not part of the CERN experiments. Hence the excitement over the December bump. Its mass, about 750 billion electron volts, was in the range where something should happen.

“It would have been great if it was there,” Dr. Randall said. “It is the sort of thing they should be looking for if we want to understand the Higgs.”

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How Lowering Crime Could Contribute to Global Warming

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By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG AUG. 3, 2016

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It sounds simple: If something has a big carbon footprint and you get rid of it, you eliminate those carbon dioxide emissions. Right?

But it’s not always that easy. In a recent study published in The Journal of Industrial Ecology, researchers at the Center for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey in England estimated the annual carbon footprint of crime in England and Wales, and found that reducing crime could actually cause society’s overall carbon footprint of society to increase.

The findings illustrated the rebound effect, which describes how reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases in one area can lead to more emissions in the aggregate, because of direct or indirect effects. It’s something that policy makers have often been encouraged to consider when they set out to reduce emissions.

August 4, 2016: Expert Lecture on Media by Professor Virender S. Chauhan

August 4, 2016: Expert Lecture on Ethics of Media and Journalism by Professor Virender S. Chauhan

Professor Virender Chauhan, Founder of Radio Sirsa delivered a lecture on Role of Media in creating social harmony at the university. Profesor Chauhan is currently the deputy Chairman of Haryana Granth Akademi - a unique initiative of the incumbvent government to promote readership of scriptures and lore having global significance though regional origin.

Professor Virender informed the audience that like Project Guttenberg that gives online access to the rich Western literature, this maiden project of the government of Haryana will give access to valuable literature having roots in the folk tradition and classical litearture emerging in the region.

He invoked a passion for books in the audience in an interactive session in which a volley of questions from the dias kept the audience busy and amused. The thought-provoking lecture invited the audience to consider issues on national safety and social harmony bringing fresh perspective to bear on important matters.


The worthy Registrar Professor Sanjay Sharma presented a bouquet to Prof Chauhan who looked flamboyant in his patent Rajasthani turban instilling liveliness in the atmosphere. His talk was appreciated for demonstrated understanding of power dynamics as he sought to shed light on some aspects of recent Jat agitation in Haryana.

Apart from a lively audience of young students , the dignitaries included Dean , FET Dr Sandeep Grover and enthusiastic faculty members including Professor Arvind Gupta.

Dr Pradeep Dimri proposed the Vote of Thanks in chaste Hindi.

It was a delight to conduct the session, though time was a constraint as the issues needed intense churning and the programme ended with a hope that similar events will be organized to thresh out solutions to the nation's persisting concerns.

-Divyajyoti Singh