The Proficiency Of Professional Revisers In An Error Detection Task

• Main Author: Leite, Délia Ribeiro
• Publication Date: 2014
• Other Authors: Magalhães, José Olímpio de
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: letrônica
• Download full: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/letronica/article/view/16845
• topic: Revisão de textos; Proficiência; Detecção de erros.

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.