Research Article
Editing English Coursebook Manuscripts: What Skills should be prepared?
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301365, author={Djatmika Djatmika and Riyadi Santosa and Sri Marmanto and Tri Wiratno and Agus Hari Wibowo}, title={Editing English Coursebook Manuscripts: What Skills should be prepared?}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communication, Language, Literature, and Culture, ICCoLLiC 2020, 8-9 September 2020, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICCOLLIC}, year={2020}, month={10}, keywords={editor skills draft linguistic features}, doi={10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301365} }- Djatmika Djatmika
Riyadi Santosa
Sri Marmanto
Tri Wiratno
Agus Hari Wibowo
Year: 2020
Editing English Coursebook Manuscripts: What Skills should be prepared?
ICCOLLIC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301365
Abstract
This paper talks about the skills needed by editors in assessing and improving English coursebook manuscripts at PT. Intan Pariwara. Fifteen drafts representing chapters of one English book manuscript became the objects of study. Data in the forms of linguistic features were collected from the drafts. In addition, non verbal aspects in the forms of pictures were also collected as suporting data. The collected data were analysed to see whether the editor of the draft has done her/his jobs well. The results show that several weaknesses were found in the edited drafts related to text structure, grammar quality, words choice, and exploitation of pictures for the book. The findings are expected to be input for the publisher to upgrade their editors for skills related to these aspects.