Developmental editing can be a subtle or a severe process depending on the quality of the original draft and the intended audience for the final copy. The two examples shown here lie towards each end of this spectrum. In the first example the original drafts, although written by German-speaking authors, were of a high linguistic standard.  The editing process was directed more towards uniting the style of different authors and making the technical message as clear as possible.

	Click on the links to display examples before and after editing. Remember that the effects we are demonstrating here are quite subtle but accumulate to a profound effect on a book’s readability.
	The second example is taken from the output of an automatic translation program translating from Swiss German to English. As a result the standard of the English is low, and sometimes humorous. The subject is an extract from a technical treatise on electrical master-slave clock systems. Click on the links to see samples of text both before and after editing. These extracts are reproduced by kind permission of Werner Moser.  You can read the full text of this article on his web site.

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