The Proficiency Of Professional Revisers In An Error Detection Task

Authors

  • Délia Ribeiro Leite Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.
  • José Olímpio de Magalhães Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2014.1.16845

Keywords:

Revisão de textos, Proficiência, Detecção de erros.

Abstract

Professional proofreaders are responsible for correcting and improving text with the aim of improving the quality of written publications. The present paper addresses revision from a cognitive theoretical framework. From this perspective, editing has been approached as a sub-process of writing; more experienced text editors and proofreaders are better able to detect mistakes at more global levels; these mistakes, in turn, demand more processing. With the goal of investigating proofreading proficiency, a reading and error detection task is proposed. The task was performed by 14 proofreaders and by 14 non-professional proofreaders. The task consisted of reading and editing short journalistic texts, which were displayed on a computer. Proofreading was carried out by clicking the mouse on the mistakes and/or inadequacies found. The results show that proofreading proficiency is associated with the ability to detect specific error types.

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Author Biographies

Délia Ribeiro Leite, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Doutora em Linguística. Revisora de textos do Conselho Regional de Contabilidade de Minas Gerais.

José Olímpio de Magalhães, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutor em Linguística. Professor titular da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

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Published

2014-07-09

How to Cite

Leite, D. R., & Magalhães, J. O. de. (2014). The Proficiency Of Professional Revisers In An Error Detection Task. Letrônica, 7(1), 225–249. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2014.1.16845

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2014): Psicolinguística & Escritas migrantes na literatura contemporânea

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Linguistics

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