THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDITORIAL CURRICULUM TO ENHANCE TEXTBOOK CRITICAL EDITING SKILLS BASED ON ENNIS’ APPROACH

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought, CD-ROM. ISSN: 2156-6992 :: 2(2):233–236 (2012) Copyright c 2012 by UniversityPublications.net THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDITORIAL CURRICULUM TO ENHANCE TEXTBOOK CRITICAL EDITING SKILLS BASED ON ENNIS’... More

International Journal of Multidisciplinary Thought, CD-ROM. ISSN: 2156-6992 :: 2(2):233–236 (2012) Copyright c 2012 by UniversityPublications.net THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EDITORIAL CURRICULUM TO ENHANCE TEXTBOOK CRITICAL EDITING SKILLS BASED ON ENNIS’ APPROACH Sangrung Poolsuwan, Sumlee Thongthew and Wipawan Wongsuwan Kongphao Chulalongkorn University, Thailand The purpose of the present study is to develop an editorial curriculum with an emphasis on textbook critical editing skills based on Ennis’ approach. The participants were 20 editors from various publishers. In the study, the participants were trained to be critical editors with manuscript textbook critical editing knowledge and skills including manuscript analysis and evaluation, copy-editing and substantive editing, format designing and presenting, and finally correcting the content and information. Moreover, the participants were trained to be able to judge the value of the edited manuscripts based on the reasonable argument con Less