
What Language Practitioners Do: The Roles of the Editor and the Translator
Does any of the following sound familiar? "Why pay someone? I'll just run it through my spell checker". "I'll have a relative check it". "My cousin is good at English". "We don't have funds to spare for an editor." "I don't need a qualification to know how to spell". Qualified language practitioners are so much more than glorified spell checkers. Here's what editors and translators do: Editing What is editing, and is there a difference between editing and proofreading? Upon f