Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity and Inclusion: A Guide for Professional Editors

Editors should approach their work with an informed worldview, avoiding harmful stereotypes, cultural insensitivity, and inaccurate information. Editing for Sensitivity, Diversity, and Inclusion provides evidence-based definitions, recommendations, and support for emerging and experienced editors working with fiction and non-fiction genres.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 340 pages
Publication date: 29 August 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Editors must approach their work with an informed worldview, ensuring that harmful stereotypes, cultural insensitivity, and inaccurate information are avoided. While knowing how to do so can be challenging, this guide provides evidence-based definitions, recommendations, and support for emerging and experienced editors working with fiction and non-fiction genres.

Part One introduces the foundations of professional editing and the knowledge editors need to conduct themselves well in professional contexts. It covers topics such as plagiarism, literary and cultural appropriation, critical appraisal, and developing a workplace policy and style guide.

Part Two applies this knowledge to professional practice, exploring topics such as addiction, dependence, and recovery; class and socio-economic status; indigeneity; religious, spiritual, and other belief systems; sex and gender identity; and trauma and torture.

This comprehensive guide offers valuable insights and practical tools for editors seeking to enhance their sensitivity, diversity, and inclusion in their work. By embracing an informed worldview and implementing these recommendations, editors can contribute to creating a more inclusive and equitable publishing industry.

Weight: 610g
Dimension: 171 x 244 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781009154659
Edition number: 2 Revised edition