Journal 7

What is the writer trying to find out more about through their research (what research question guides their work)?
The writer is trying to find out the processes used by editors as they perform their work and to grasp the modifications made to texts. Questions mentioned in the text; what defines revision in a professional context?
What approach is taken by those who make their living revising—that is, professional editors? Are their resemblances between their strategies? How is their revision process influenced by the mandate they receive, their conception of revision, and their experience?

What is the research methodology of this article (how do they collect their information, and how do they analyze the information they collect)?
They outlined their methods before the actual research began. Creating questions as well as choosing who the professional editors that can answer these questions is the first step. They collected their information through dividing the editors into 2 categories to determine whether their behavior varied with their experience.
How does professional editing differ from how students revise their own work?

For professionals, revision is not a habitual process, often the editor must reflect to understand the meaning of a passage or reread the passage more than once just like a student would need to. However, to perform detection and correction automatically experience in certain aspects of the revision is needed to make it a part of your lifestyle. Students on the other hand haven’t gained as much experience in revision to actually be as accurate.