Issues in editing & proofreading software for editors
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Many individuals looking to pursue a career in writing and editing are now looking upon the same bleak reality of technological advancement rendering careers obsolete that other fields have faced. This often raises questions by budding editors and writers about the impact various software and newer word processing features -- that are advertised as being able to deal with the editing and proofreading side of the equation -- might present to their career options in the future and whether such a pursuit is even worthwhile.
On one hand, these are legitimate concerns because nothing is static and all industries are changing in good part due to computer technology and software innovation. On the other hand, such developments aren't necessarily a call to abandon careers so much as adapt and improvise with the new developments. In the following, briefly examine this question and what such developments can potentially present to professional editors and proofreaders.
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Technological leaps on the software side are rapidly making the process of editing and proofreading, for the untrained end-user, progressively easier and accessible relative to the days when actual professionals were needed. However, the emergence of such writing assistant software doesn't necessary mean the end of professional writers, editors and proofreaders.
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With the rise of technology and automation, many jobs are being rendered obsolete, but few would imagine that editing and proofreading would soon fall under the purview of some digital app with an intuitive algorithm.
Indeed technology has come a long way from the '90s when we first starting seeing special features in word processing software that helped correct for grammar and punctuation errors, but those were crude and early days for said technology. We even had tools that allowed people to generate summaries from longer blocks of texts, summaries that may well have flown correctly from a grammatical perspective, but were still limited to be the constraints of the software when it came to providing a proper summary of the larger content that would require human intervention. This brings us to today's picture where many of us being subjected to advertisements for applications like Grammarly, which can even be assimilated into mobile phone technology, and being touted as ...
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