Australian Standards for Editing Practice
First Published in 2001 by the Council of Australian Societies of Editors (CASE)
(now known as the Institute of Professional Editors)
(Click on 'next' below to move through the various clauses of the ASEP, or click on the link to download the PDF version.**)
There has been a sustained effort in the last decade to establish standards for editing practice and a system of accreditation in Australia in response to the ‘unstructured, unregulated nature of the profession’, since ‘virtually anyone [could] set up as a freelance editor’ with ‘no way of “proving” their competence’.* The Australian Standards for Editing Practice (2001) have gone a long way toward rectifying this problem. The aim of the ASEP was to establish a set of procedures and directives that would inform editing operations, in order to protect clients from poor quality work, to make clear the extent and/or boundaries of an editor's responsibilities, to equip clients with realistic expectations and to improve the communication between clients and editors by providing a framework within which they can structure their working relationships.
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Contents
A. The publishing process, conventions and industry practice
E. Completeness and consistency
*CASE Working Group on Accreditation 2002, ‘Accreditation Issues Paper’, http://www.iped-editors.org/accreditation.html, accessed 11th December, 2006.
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